While we see a lot of pushback in online comments, I think the majority of gamers will love this kind of thing. I’m actually afraid it could do what CGI did to hand drawn animation and become the dominant aesthetic.

It happens in mobile browser only so ublock is not an option, at least on iphone. It’s also not even a pop up. It freezes while you’re scrolling like a paywall on a news site. Seems like desktop mode may help and there could be other workarounds, but it’s such an obnoxious move by Reddit that it will cause a mass exodus.

My bad