URL: /rules/mobile/interstitials

---
title: "Interstitials"
description: "Detects potentially intrusive mobile interstitials"
---

Detects potentially intrusive mobile interstitials

| | |
|---|---|
| **Rule ID** | `mobile/interstitials` |
| **Category** | [Mobile](/rules/mobile) |
| **Scope** | Per-page |
| **Severity** | warning |
| **Weight** | 5/10 |

## Solution

Google penalizes intrusive interstitials that cover main content on mobile. Avoid: popups that cover the content immediately on page load, standalone interstitials before the main content, above-the-fold layouts that look like interstitials. Allowed: age verification, cookie consent (small), login walls for paywalled content.

## Enable / Disable

### Disable this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["mobile/interstitials"]
```

### Disable all Mobile rules

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["mobile/*"]
```

### Enable only this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["mobile/interstitials"]
disable = ["*"]
```