@xahteiwi Modals were not good even before the advertising industry. They are bad for accessibility, they constrain the user's options, it's easy to design them badly ("How do I get out of this?") and can contribute to disorientation. Modals are only okay (not good) for very narrow use cases.

@xahteiwi The correct(tm) way to do it is undo. Undo can take different shapes or forms. It can be immediate like in a word processor or indirect like with the recycle bin. Undo is backed up by usability research.

If you cannot offer undo, something like GitHub's "Enter the text ... below" is an option.