Pop ups are annoying, especially when a site gives you one every time you click a stupid link or the sites that give you 10,000. I have one pop up on my site. It's used on one page and if you accept the cookie you'll only see it once a week. I use it for a newsletter sub box and an affiliate ad. It's really done quite well. I guess it's all the newbies who actually look at them LOL.

What is that 1 pixel bot? I've never heard of that before.