Behind the overlay add in
Ya, that’s what i heard him say… Get out!
It’s fynny when there is a full screen banner that tells you to pay to read the article and then you just use the uBlock origin zapper to delete that and read through the article.
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They got smarter than that. They show a page that looks like the one you want, but isn’t. It just serves as a vessel to show you that you need to pay. If you zap the modal, it reveals there’s nothing behind it.
The real joke is the fact that Big G isn’t also offering you lots of ads, maybe even some LLM-generated gobbledygook for flavour.
Yes, he did ask you to leave the site.
You can just leave, or make a fuss, or try to punch your way with the dev-tools. I honestly don’t care. But what he said does mean exactly “I don’t want you here, leave”.