How to hide newsletter signup popups

Works on every website · takes about 10 seconds · free

Halfway through an article, the screen dims: "Join 50,000 readers!" Exit-intent overlays, timed modals, slide-in footers — the newsletter popup industry has many shapes and they all interrupt.

Why it gets in the way

They break your reading flow on purpose. Many re-trigger per session or per page, and mobile versions frequently trap the scroll behind the overlay.

The 10-second fix

HideIt is a free browser extension that hides any element you point at — including widgets inside iframes that normally swallow your clicks and open instead of hiding.

1. Install HideIt — free for Chrome, Firefox and Safari (register below to get the link at launch).
2. Turn it on — click the HideIt icon on the page that's bugging you. Until you do, HideIt can't see the page at all.
3. Click the widget — hover Newsletter popups until the red outline wraps it, click, choose Every visit. Gone — and it stays gone, even if the site re-injects it.

Chat widgets live in iframes that eat your clicks — click one normally and it opens. HideIt paints a shield over the widget while picking, so your click hides it instead of feeding it.

The manual way (if you like pain)

You can open DevTools, find the element (varies per site; hide the overlay AND the dimmed backdrop), and write a custom CSS rule in an ad-blocker. It works until the site changes its markup — HideIt's self-healing selectors handle that for you, and re-hide the element if the site sneaks it back.

Does hiding it break the site?

No — HideIt only hides what you clicked, nothing else. If you ever want it back, open the HideIt popup and un-hide it in one click, per site, per element.

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