[hungryforcodes]

And yet they are on every website I visit and annoy me endlessly.

[raverbashing]

Do you know what's funny? The sites make a big show of how they are "made to show this annoying popup", right

But funnily enough, the other 10 popups/banners/sliders etc to sign for their newsletters, promotions, etc are all voluntary then?

[hungryforcodes]

Ha! There is some good truth to this :)

[schmorptron]

Enable the annoyances filters in ublock origin settings, gets rid of a lot of them, but not all

[hungryforcodes]

Wow, cool! I hadn't even seen that before. I enabled all the annoyances filters -- let's see what happens. I tip my hat off to you :)

[teddyh]

Yes, but they are not mandated by anyone.