Ok, it’s annoying and I hate popups, but that’s what I was looking for anyway; No biggie. I click the big “Subscribe” button in the popup, and it opens another tab inside of the tiny popup window, which is unusable. I guess they didn’t test this on Firefox.

Alright, I can deal with this. Close the popup window, look for the “Subscribe” link on the main page for about 10 seconds, click it. Another popup appears. This is becoming annoying. Since Firefox has a pretty clever popup blocker, this indicates that the WSJ webmaster team spent some time devising this even more clever popup script to get around my popup blocker — despite the fact that I obviously hate popups.

I am determined, however, so I close the second popup, and start filling out the form. I don’t remember exactly how or when, but a third popup appears.

I stop filling out the form and close the window.

A Brit J school professor wrote last September “financial journalists are too tied up in mutual back-scratching with companies and, they are too economically illiterate.” That’s another couple of reasons I can do without the WSJ. I see a lot of both in their pages.