NoScript goes a long way to making the web usable again. Most of these crappy applets are embedded from 3rd party domains, so you can whitelist the primary domain and still block this junk. It's a bit of a pain, yes, but I can't imagine browsing without it.

UMatrix works good for this flow too

I really hope someone in the community is able to keep the project active, it's my favorite extension by far.

Yep, It's not just Clippy, it's anything that I would want to dismiss and then it doesn't persist.

https://coworker.com has this annoying banner at the moment advertising their global pass.

Nice X to close. I refresh page and it's back. If I clear my cookies or my adblock causes a javascript error, then fair enough. Otherwise, persist my decisions please.

For that website, get a Chrome plugin called User Javascript and CSS and set it up to inject:

    #hello_banner { display:none !important; }
    .grecaptcha-badge { display: none !important; }

I know it's a lot of work to inspect the DOM and do this for every site but I just hate banners and popups that much, and very often multiple websites reuse the same banner code so my efforts start paying off after dealing with a few dozen.

Those are the worst... it's like entering a store, only to have your way virtually blocked by a pushy salesman.

Except the salesman turns out to be a bot with the IQ of a three year old.

Kind of like this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083mv25

Good one :)

For a next version of this sketch they could borrow some inspiration here: https://darkpatterns.org/