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Discussion on: I don't like exit intent popups.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Things I hate:

  • A massive box over the content begging me to join a newsletter the second the site loads, before I've even gotten to read the content to know if I like the style. I will exit the tab and move on with my life.
  • A massive box over the content begging me to turn off ad blocker, when I have no clue if you're actually using an ad host that won't give me malware and I have no clue if you're worth anything yet anyway. I will exit the tab and move on with my life.
  • A massive box over the content begging me not to go, but I've finished reading the content... now I don't like your style, will exit the tab, and move on with my life.
  • Any massive boxes over content. I will exit the tab and move on with my life.

I may be a little salty over this since I prefer reading over watching and so many bloggers seem to think this call to action will endear me. It does not.

I signed up for dev.to since it just kind of hides a comment/post/notification that's like "Hey, you should sign up!" rather than a massive box blocking content. And I will forever love them for this.

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Juan F Gonzalez

Hahaha I totally relate with the huge box promising some stuff in exchange for subscribing to a email list when I recently landed on the site and haven't even been able to read anything of their content yet.