I have long been tired of the fact that I can not normally use 90% of sites without registration. I’m not going to create an account in order to read a post that interests me right now. But today was the last straw. Fucking Tumblr makes me create an account just to find and read 1 POST. (Sorry for mistakes, I am non English speaker)

  • @PlutoniumAcid
    24•1 year ago

    I don’t think you can get around that. What I do is that if the site requires a registration, or has a full-screen cookie banner, then I just close that tab. End of story.

    If I can’t view it easily, then I will just not view it.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      I’ve started doing a modified version of this too. If there’s any kind of roadblock in front of the content, I’ll ask myself to be honest about how important it’s likely to be to me… and maybe like seven or eight times out of ten I’ll just close it and move on, no regrets.

      I apply this thinking to captchas as well, though my skip rate is probably a bit lower.

  • @MigratingtoLemmy
    10•1 year ago

    If they keep serving a pop-up for you to register, find the JS function that does that and remove it. Or use NoScript and disable it.

    But if they absolutely require logins then I’m afraid the only thing you can do is use temp emails

    • Eggs
      10•1 year ago

      That’s what I do, use uBlock Origin to filter the pop-up. Then most site disable scrolling and that can usually be countered by finding the “overflow: hidden;” and turning it into “overflow: visible;” (you can also use uBlock Origin to inject “overflow: visible !important;” into the page for it to stay persistent.