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>Seek throws up a „please don‘t disturb nature“ modal at every single start that you need to click away.

Frustration shared.

So the modal is doing its job.

Sure, it's "doing its job" much in the way a podcast advert you've already heard 1000 times is "doing its job".

I keep hearing people speak so positively of "friction," lately, and yet. Some more nuance required in that discussion, I think.

Making the user completely inured to its message is not doing its job