Around the time this started, Google was going to penalize sites in its search ranking if they greeted users with an obtrusive popup. I thought that would stron

Around the time this started, Google was going to penalize sites in its search ranking if they greeted users with an obtrusive popup. I thought that would strongly discourage cookie banners but then suddenly there was an explosion of stupid popups everywhere - newsletter signups, cookie banners, "special offers", overlaid ads, etc. I guess Google never did that thing?