The more aggressive and dark-UX the banner is, the more likely I am to spend time figuring out how to reject everything or to just close the tab right away.
If it doesn't try to trick me into accepting things, I sometimes actually consider doing that.
Why don't I just accept them all? No idea. Out of spite? Principles? Because I have too much time? Because my mind is too eager to get distracted with the popup? The fact that the only reason to even show these popups is for the website to do non-essential things that aren't actually in my interest? All of the above? Use of tasteless dark UX patterns doesn't even instill trust in me that these choices are actually respected in any way, to put it lightly.
I do right-click -> inspect element and then delete the pop-up element in the browser source viewer thing on chrome. Sometimes I have to find where it says “overflow” and set it to “overflow: visible” or something like that.
I do kind of the same in Firefox with ublock origin, making it permanent. "Right click", Block Element". I also added a userContent.css file to my firefox profile, which adds the following style to every page on every website, so I don't have to deal with the overflow shite:
I do the same every time, except the most complex cases. Them I started to treat as paywalls -- just close the page, I wasn't so interested in this information anyway.
If it doesn't try to trick me into accepting things, I sometimes actually consider doing that.
Why don't I just accept them all? No idea. Out of spite? Principles? Because I have too much time? Because my mind is too eager to get distracted with the popup? The fact that the only reason to even show these popups is for the website to do non-essential things that aren't actually in my interest? All of the above? Use of tasteless dark UX patterns doesn't even instill trust in me that these choices are actually respected in any way, to put it lightly.