As long as it's not preventing closing the tab with an alert (via window.onbeforeunload), but soley showing an overlay when the mouse is going up, I don't care so much. I'd say it's on a level with opening links in new tabs. I'm done trying to talk clients out of it because marketing always wins and I really don't care anymore.
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As long as it's not preventing closing the tab with an alert (via window.onbeforeunload), but soley showing an overlay when the mouse is going up, I don't care so much. I'd say it's on a level with opening links in new tabs. I'm done trying to talk clients out of it because marketing always wins and I really don't care anymore.