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We all just click through cookie popups, the specific text doesn't make any difference to 99% of users, if not more. The only thing legislation like that does
by ewjordan 9y ago
We all just click through cookie popups, the specific text doesn't make any difference to 99% of users, if not more.
The only thing legislation like that does is make companies pay people like me a little more to implement popups that annoy their users.
- Retric 9y agoIt also creates awareness as people who had no idea that cookies existed also receive such pop ups.
- Cenk 9y agoI’d argue it doesn’t do much of that either. No-one reads error messages, and certainly no-one ready cookie notices.
- jameshart 9y agoUltimately it creates terrible trust signals. Users learn that 'professionally made sites have those cookie banner things. It's something to do with security or something', they assume that sites without them are more likely to be dodgy, and place false trust in sites which do implement a cookie warning.
- Retric 9y agoThat's a straw man argument, clueless people that stay clueless are hardly a downside. However, these banners have also clearly caused millions of people to ask the question "What's a cookie" which leads some of them to start caring about this issue.
- Symbiote 9y agoWe click through them now, because the message is techno-waffle, or boring: "This site uses cookies. Read our policy." If, instead, it said "Every click you make on this site is recorded and sent to four unrelated companies" the public might just have taken a bit more notice.
- criddell 9y agoI doubt it. There are signs all over California telling you that the appliance you are going to buy might kill you and nobody cares. You think they are going to care that some unrelated company will find out what you are reading on Medium?