Calls-to-action are the new pop-up ads
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Let me share with you but a small sample of all the obstacles that stood between me and my content within a span of just twenty minutes (not all on the same website).First, I need to dismiss this dialog box by clicking “Block”:Lest every website I ever visit starts feeling entitled to a slice of my daily attention pieThen, I wait for the web page to load and scan the page for the start of the content, a task easier said than done, what with the large number of widgets such as navigation links and share buttons screaming for my attention before I have even read the first letter of the first sentence:Then, just as I finish reading the first sentence, hoping to get into a good rhythm, the content is cruelly occluded with a dark transparency, on top of which appears a garish overlay that is (...)