A popup box is ruining my captures

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I am trying to capture articles for my University newspaper (https://www.albanystudentpress.online/) and there is an unfortunate popup box (that is trying to get me to subscribe to the newsletter even though I am already subscribed to the newsletter) is ruining my captures. The box appears every time I reload the page, and as we know, the archiveweb.page needs to reload the page to perform the capture. I have tried using the autopilot mode and it’s not solving it.
It captures the first few seconds before the popup without fail, and then, once the pop up appears, everything sans the header and footer disappears.
I have reached out to the site owners in an attempt to see if they can remove the popup but I am also looking to see if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for the archiveweb.page side of things.

Any advice is appreciated!

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There’s nothing we can do about the popup, as it seems to appear on the page every time (even when dismissed). The archived page should replay once the popup is dismissed, but I believe there may be a security setting in the browser that’s interfering with the replay.
You can try download the WACZ file and loading it in https://replayweb.page or, using the ArchiveWeb.page desktop app. In both cases, the WACZ file should replay well when its not in the extension itself. We also just released a new version (0.15.3) and you can try there as well, but I believe the issue is tied to browser restrictions unfortunately.

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