Is that what that says? I have noticed that every substack page pops up some stupid modal as you scroll down the page and, for the most part, it's made me avoid them when I can because it's just obnoxious. I'm contemplating a Chrome Extension or something that will auto close them but for now I just find that most of the time it's not worth clicking anyway.
I just close it immediately without reading it like the internet has trained me to do with literally every modal. You want my attention? Put some call to action in the text I'm reading. A modal popping up mid-content asking for my email is just a good way to signal to me that you don't value your content and that you just wrote it so you can get my information. And sorry to those folks, I don't even read it.
> You want my attention? Put some call to action in the text I'm reading.
Please no. In-article advertisements and link blocks are a plague on online publishing.
I'm sure Substack will eventually do this however. In the early days they didn't have a nagging modal. Over time they'll go full Medium.com and straight up hide free articles behind a signup/subscribe.
Ooof ok I hadn't thought that through. I guess I was more thinking at the end of the text like I think The Guardian does just opting not for a popup but yeah honestly you're right. Don't put ads in my content either.
Can you just block that element with your adblocker?
FWIW, that’s just a Substack feature. It’s not like the authors all got together and decided they all wanted to make a modal pop up on scroll and interrupt your reading.
I'm not sure I feel like usually a "well-made" site doing this will vary some identifier or something so that you can't just wholesale block them all.
And that's fair, I understand that but they do still choose to publish there instead of their own blog. My opinion on that site is kind of agnostic of the owner of the problem it's more just that I'm not going somewhere knowing that is going to happen when I do.
I just close it immediately without reading it like the internet has trained me to do with literally every modal. You want my attention? Put some call to action in the text I'm reading. A modal popping up mid-content asking for my email is just a good way to signal to me that you don't value your content and that you just wrote it so you can get my information. And sorry to those folks, I don't even read it.