I've met some people who ask why I care so much about not having to see ads. They don't care if there's youtube ads every now and then. At this point they have to care.
Countless sites and I'm not keeping track because I visit more than a few sites and not always recurringly. Typically, the page is frozen and I have to disable cookie consent blocker to decline and then be able to use the website. Are you seriously saying you've never encountered this?
If you don't click any of the options and simply block the pop-up, it commonly breaks the site. Doesn't matter what's ethically right, you have to be practical.
DeArrow should be optional because it's not a strict improvement. Some thumbnails and titles are good and many times at least better than the title someone comes up with to de-clickbait it.
Who claimed the opposite?