Oh it’s been pointed out to me after my last comment, but I still say it’s not really there because it’s so hard to distinguish from everything else all the background color and the things with larger font size text, etc.
If we’re all being honest about it, we all know it’s a normal strategy to try to get people not to close and instead click thru login/create to their system, they try to obfuscate and hide it by minimizing it or overlapping it with other things.
On mine the sign-in and the X are almost right next to each other.
Young webpage developers designing UI for younger aged eyes, and not thinking that when people get older they increase the font size of everything on their device so they can see still, which affects the layout of everything being displayed.
There’s chunk of the bottom of the screen encouraging you to do those things, but it doesn’t in any way keep you from reading the article if you don’t, and you can just click the ‘x’ to remove it from the screen entirely.
but it doesn’t in any way keep you from reading the article if you don’t, and you can just click the ‘x’ to remove it from the screen entirely.
It did on my phone (otherwise I would have read it instead of posting a ‘Paywalled’ comment here), and I didn’t see any X to click on, though granted the screen was very busy with a lot of stuff going on.
I honestly didn’t see it until you pointed it out now.
It’s so small and it’s so close to the sign-in button, that I took it as part of the sign-in stuff, and trying to click on the X the first time actually clicked on the sign-in stuff instead.
I actually went looking for the X by scrolling down.
Too bad they didn’t move it more to the right away from the sign-in link, and made it a bold font like they did the wording right below it, as it seems like such a small unbolded font that have the X be displayed as.
I’m not going to change my original comment, and I still stand by it. If they obfuscate the way of closing the pop-ups by making the close button so small and insignificant compared to the other likewise texting around it, to me that still paywalling, as they’re trying to trick people into signing up for an account to read the article.
It’s a smaller font size and non-bolded right next to other text around it that’s larger font size. Oh and it’s also pushed up next to another thing that does the complete opposite, instead of observing proper spacing between UI interaction items; bad UX.
Paywalled.
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It’s a gift link. You’ve got something unusual about your settings (eg: javascript disabled) if you’re hitting the paywall.
It was asking me to login or to create a free account to be able to read the article. 🤷♂️
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You couldn’t just close that? I got that too and was able to close it and read~
I quickly looked for a way of closing it, honestly, but did not find one, so I backed out.
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Weird. I’m on my phone now and I still have the option to close.
Oh it’s been pointed out to me after my last comment, but I still say it’s not really there because it’s so hard to distinguish from everything else all the background color and the things with larger font size text, etc.
If we’re all being honest about it, we all know it’s a normal strategy to try to get people not to close and instead click thru login/create to their system, they try to obfuscate and hide it by minimizing it or overlapping it with other things.
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I’m sorry dude but… It’s not really hidden…
On mine the sign-in and the X are almost right next to each other.
Young webpage developers designing UI for younger aged eyes, and not thinking that when people get older they increase the font size of everything on their device so they can see still, which affects the layout of everything being displayed.
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There’s chunk of the bottom of the screen encouraging you to do those things, but it doesn’t in any way keep you from reading the article if you don’t, and you can just click the ‘x’ to remove it from the screen entirely.
It did on my phone (otherwise I would have read it instead of posting a ‘Paywalled’ comment here), and I didn’t see any X to click on, though granted the screen was very busy with a lot of stuff going on.
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On my phone, the ‘x’ is just above the ‘to’ in the words “A Post subscriber gave you free access to this article.”
I honestly didn’t see it until you pointed it out now.
It’s so small and it’s so close to the sign-in button, that I took it as part of the sign-in stuff, and trying to click on the X the first time actually clicked on the sign-in stuff instead.
I actually went looking for the X by scrolling down.
Too bad they didn’t move it more to the right away from the sign-in link, and made it a bold font like they did the wording right below it, as it seems like such a small unbolded font that have the X be displayed as.
I’m not going to change my original comment, and I still stand by it. If they obfuscate the way of closing the pop-ups by making the close button so small and insignificant compared to the other likewise texting around it, to me that still paywalling, as they’re trying to trick people into signing up for an account to read the article.
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It’s pretty big and visible on my phone. Not hard to find at all.
It’s a smaller font size and non-bolded right next to other text around it that’s larger font size. Oh and it’s also pushed up next to another thing that does the complete opposite, instead of observing proper spacing between UI interaction items; bad UX.
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