Just scrolled all the way down, had two pop ups appear in the process - one for video taking up 1/3 top of the screen (appeared from the beginning as I started scrolling the page), and another one for “read next” (once i got to the bottom of the page).
However, both of them are easily dismissable, with none showing up after that. Here is a screen recording[0] of how it looks in Safari. You can see in the very beginning of it that I am clicking page refresh, so i didn’t prep it ahead of time or anything. When you see pop-ups disappear, it is me manually closing them.
The original comment said "mobile". That doesn't mean any specific single test case. I'm using a chrome derivative.
And to be really blunt, I don't care if it works for you. It doesn't for me.
I get a "larger than screen size", undismissable popup. No, it's not me. No, I don't care to debug it, nor why that one site out of thousands, is like that.
Their site is broken, and that's all I need to know. Off to another website I go!
(I detest things popping up whilst I am reading. If a stranger snuck up, and shoved something in between a paper book or magazine I was reading, in real life, I'd probably push them away and threaten them to stop. Or else. They'd get a punch in the nose of they kept it up.
It's just abusive.
So if this little scheme to pester me goes wrong, I have little sympathy for the buffoonery involved.)