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Email signup popups
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Email signup popups, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Subscription settings are bloated, and new categories quietly opt users in2026-01-23
- Modal pops up for email collection two sentences into reading, interrupting content2024-06-09
- Forced email registration with no guest checkout, so users abandon purchases2022-08-21
- People get added to lists without consent via dark patterns, then fear unsubscribe links2021-02-17
- Subscription form pops up on page load before reading any content2019-05-06
- Popup forces an email signup before the user can read the content2019-02-21