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My blind guess is they are doing split testing with various ad-blocking measures.
Whenever someone interacts with the message, they know the popup worked. Best reaction is currently to use uBlock Origin's element picker or zapper to hide the popup.
The company is likely gathering data in various blocking methods to see which is the most foolproof.
Thank you. I'd forgotten that uBlock had the zapper function