KenK wrote:
I notice recently that a window appears shortly after some web sites load,
blocking the site's contants, with no exit 'X' in the upper right. Usually
getting you to sign up for something or other with your email address. Like
you don't already receive enough spem! is there any way to make these go
away without signing up? Probably not.

Some news sites, like New York Times, are now limiting the number of visits
to three or using the above blocking window. sigh

Getting so I'll have to find a replacement of some sort for much of my
internet usage. Is nothing sacred? g

TIA

There is Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey, with attendant risks from
the pool of existing scripts they can use.

This is perhaps just as scary. You would want to do this,
on a browser where, if it needed to be trashed, you wouldn't
mind removing the browser entirely and reinstalling. Chrome
has a gazillion storage locations and I wouldn't know what to
remove to reset an extension like this. And besides, Chrome isn't
likely to work on WinXP anyway, so I suppose this isn't that
helpful. But at least this approach doesn't require a CS degree
and "programming homework" for the user.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKn..._overlay_that/

This is the kind of thing you'd set up in a VM. I can run
Win7 or Win10 on my WinXP machine, because I have VirtualBox
5.2.x running there. If I needed Chrome running on the machine,
I'd put it in a container and run it.

It could be difficult to reproduce your exact symptoms,
since the way a website treats you is a function of the
tracking it does, how many visits you've made, whether it
has effective cookies it can use to figure out who you
are and how aggressive the popovers have to be.

Paul