This wasn't on a mobile device and it was some years ago before mobile web was quite as prevalent. I take your point though, I guess nowadays it may not seem so

This wasn't on a mobile device and it was some years ago before mobile web was quite as prevalent. I take your point though, I guess nowadays it may not seem so odd. I also learned that people seem to put up with these things (instead of just closing them). I was watching someone play a game on youtube, where every time they picked up an item it would show a popup at the bottom of the screen showing what it was. You had to press a button on they gamepad to close the popup and the person playing rarely did, causing them to stack up taking up a lot of the screen. My OCD would have made me close them immediately, but clearly some people seem to barely even see them. I guess its similar with toolbars/cookie popups...