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Fool.com really wants you to subscribe

I don’t actually read Motley Fool, but I recognize it can be a good and sometimes fun resource for investors, plus it has a pleasant design that for the most part, shows real attention to details.

So I was browsing around this Sunday morning when I was hit in the face with this:

Notice what’s wrong? No bail out option. No close link, no no thanks button, escape key does not work, nada. All that in the form of a pesky overlay that hides the content. I tried the “Click Here” button to no avail, as you see. I had to reload to be able to read the article below.

I can understand the practice of this, I cannot accept it, though. This is not the way to go to convince people to subscribe in a content site – and to be frank, I don’t think that Motley Fool actually needs this kind of stuff.

Thumbs down.

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4 comments on this post

  1. stelabouras #1

    3 steps to get this off :P

    1. Install Firebug
    2. Inspect element on the box
    3. Delete element :P

    What’s the fuzz? :P

  2. John Tsevdos #2

    hehe nice one stelaboura ;-) Maybe she can do a little site redesign as well ;-)

  3. Sugar #3

    @stelabouras

    I won’t get down to Firebug just to read some article. Reloading did the trick anyway.

    And I won’t have to redesign everything, I think Fool.com is pretty much structured already.

    :)

  4. stelabouras #4

    I was being ironic ofc ;)

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