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I've never visited the site before so I just assumed it was just malicious, but as @zdanger said, it might be a hijacked legit site.
I do use uBlock. It also didn't 'feel' like an ad. I now expect the site was compromised as you suggested.
Yea. If others can confirm it then seems like the site was hacked
For me accessing that site in Firefox on Windows (even with uBO) does trigger the scam popup, but in any other browser I tried (Edge, Chrome, FF dev edition), it doesn't. Kinda interesting.
The popup does not manage to add anything to the clipboard. There are tons of JS errors in the console, so luckily the thing seems to be pretty broken right now.
I wonder if this is an issue on Linux only maybe? Not seeing anyone here on Windows confirming this.
Edit: nvm someone on windows confirmed it