[QuantumYeti]

On mobile, I usually exit the site if a cookie banner pops up. On desktop, I'll try disabling javascript. If that doesn't work, I'll try reader mode. If those don't work, I exit the site.

My personal opinion is that the web had a "sweet spot" somewhere between the advent of pop-up blockers, and the death of flash (aka, the widespread adoption of javascript).

When flash was around, all the focus-grabbing/context-switching/interactive media was locked behind a click-to-play flash container that could easily be ignored.

Now that flash has been replaced with javascript (along with an expectation that everyone should allow it to run because "flash bad, javascript good"), we get unblockable pop-ups, cookie banners, unresponsive pages with content that refuses to load with the rest of the page, and countless other "features" that seem to be, at best, lateral moves.