In the last couple months if you go to their site in a mobile browser (e.g. from search results), after a short scroll down they have this popup demanding you install their app and it completely takes over the screen. I take it as a reminder never to install their app.

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mikestew 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I thought I'd be clever and use iOS's "Hide Distracting Items" to get rid of elements like that. But reddit kills the scroll, too, so even after the dickover[0] is gone the page is still non-functional. Nothing says, "we don't want your business" like a non-functional web page, which seems like a bad move unless you're selling food or potable water. 'cuz I get along just fine w/o reddit.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

	▲	Tanoc an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've been trying to figure out for years how to keep specific bits of Javascript like that from triggering. But so many modern webpages are procedurally generated messes born from frameworks that I can't reliably track down a way to do it. On Reddit for example there's reddit.com, redd.it, redditstatic.com, and cdn-apple.com that are all subdomains that load on the page, and each pull Javascript from dozens of different sources. If you disable Javascript entirely the page won't load and instead nags you to enable it. I don't want to go digging through the page inspector in my dev console just to track down which .js file is causing that, and then figure out how to only stop it from killing the scrollbar. If you can even do that. Some pages are so labyrinthine that you can't.
	▲	locao an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> 'cuz I get along just fine w/o reddit. Killing xcancel and nitter was an awesome callout that I was again spending too much time on social media, even if logged out. Back to my cave.

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steezeburger 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the worst on iPhone, because it won't even let me scroll back up to show the button to open the tabs view, I have to switch out of the browser and re-open it to be able to scroll to show.

	▲	PlunderBunny a few seconds ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe you can two-finger pinch to shrink the web page to the grid view, then close the page from there?
	▲	benjaminoakes 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yikes, that shouldn't be possible.

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abustamam 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ublock origin on Firefox has an option to disable this which is nice.