"The most important job is just to reassure the user that yes, things are happening; progress is being made..."<br>Shout out to Web pages which put a "spinner" gif directly in their HTML, so it always appears; even if the JS that fetches the content is broken/missing.,(reply>), @Matthew Watson and in case you entered with JS enabled, just remove the overlay and remove the overflow:hidden via the developer tools.,(reply>), @Matthew Watson wait, really?,(reply>), @dasten123 if you disable JS you can access nearly all of the paywalled news or magazine article websites. The paywall never loads but the article does,(reply>), @dasten123 I use uMatrix to allow each domain individually to use scripts or css or media etc.,(reply>), @Katja Strand You disable js, really? Wow, are you from 2008?