It's interesting that another person has also had this issue - good that people who are better at the game than me can pick up on these things! If you're able to let me know how long you were playing before you lost pop-ups then that would be helpful, but fully understand that you may not remember at this point. Thanks so much for playing and leaving such a nice comment!
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my end score was about a row and a half away from max difficulty, and i had been running without popups a good 5 minutes i think before i decided to drop back and see the thing chasing me. i actually got really close to losing in the beginning when i was trying to figure out the popup controls but pulled it back and away, took maybe 30 sec from there to realize there were no popups anymore c: