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reply"Appreciate it" / "cool carry on"
Is exactly the sort of confusing non choice options cookie banners give. Along the lines of
"Accept all" / "more information"
Then I'll retract my claim but it is bad UX to make a popup on the landing page that looks like an evil cookie banner.
I must agree the text on the buttons confused me too, but considering the article title and the first few comments I stopped and read the pop-up text.
replyI’m in the habit of going interesting title -> skim a few comments -> then decide whether I should click on the article