How to disable "select your country" pop up on mathworks site?

How can I disable the "select your country" pop up on mathworks site? It's the most annoying thing by far on the website! It happens every time I'm not logged in or if the browser cache is deleted.

I click outside the pop up every time (I can't be bothered to select the location), and usually it pops up for 2nd time and after that it doesn't pop up again.

Why can't they just use the IP to get the approximate location?!

[Stephen23]

Note that selecting a country takes the same number of clicks as closing the pop-up box OR clicking outside the box: one.

[Noam Greenboim]

It's already 2020. It should e zero clicks.

[Mayank Goswami]

But Why? Why you need Cookie? Countrywise Website? Ed. no are you watching this?

It must be Zero Clicks.

[Domingo G]

I also opened a thread about this in 2018.

They included since then a close "cross" on top. But it is definitely extremely annoying, it keeps happening from me all around, I saw this happening to every person in uni and jokes are there. UX team should definitely consider.

Answer 1

[Ceasar_Ullrich9]

Install this firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/codeinjector/

then copy paste this code and inject

setInterval(function() {
document.body.className = document.body.className.replace("modal-open","");
document.body.className = document.body.className.replace("mlc modal-open","");
document.body.className = document.body.className.replace("mlc","");
}, 200);

I feel confident this alone solves the issue.

However I also added these ublock origin rules (install here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/)

go in the ublock origin dashboard and add

! 2021-09-18 https://www.mathworks.com
https://www.mathworks.com##body:style(overflow: visible !important; position: static !important)
www.mathworks.com##.modal-header
www.mathworks.com##.modal-body
www.mathworks.com###country-unselected
www.mathworks.com##.in.fade.modal-backdrop

Answer 2

[ES]

AS you have mentioned, the location/language preferences are stored in cache/cookies only. The only solution is to not to delete browser cache/cookies for Mathworks site till they "just use the IP to get the approximate location"

[Walter Roberson]

Using the IP address alone would not be satisfactory. For example, English speaking people sometimes go to work with Chinese companies temporarily, and want to access the site in English even though they are in China.

[Stephen23]

"Using the IP address alone would not be satisfactory."

I don't see how using the IP address as the default would stop a person from selecting another country.

[Walter Roberson]

@Stephen

In English, "just" has several meanings. In the context, the primary meaning of "just" would be "exclusively" -- that Mathworks should only do geolocation and not use cookies, not even to hold the precise choice of country. Notice the original user wants a technique that still works when the broswer cookie cache is cleared (so choice of page should not be based upon anything remembered on the user's computer), and when the user is logged in (so choice of page should not be based upon anything remembered with the user's account.) The original user clearly does not want to have to go through a sequence even longer than the pop-up would be in order to select a page that was inaccurately geolocated or language inaccurately guessed when a region has several plausible languages.

Short of invasive techniques such as "fingerprinting" the user's computer, geolocation is about all that is left. But it isn't good enough for the purpose -- VPNs, people working outside the main region their language is spoken, multilingual regions, multiple users behind the same Network Address Translation system but who want different languages...

Using geolocation and then finalizing with a cookie if the guess is wrong, is incompatible with the user's requirement that the technique survive clearing the cookie cache.