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Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie prompts?
I am finding this to have become a major distraction, not only because it steals in sum a few minutes of every day, but because it is a major distraction that disrupts my train of thought, when e.g. looking up on thesaurus. It doesnt help that many sites think it appropriate to prompt again every week.
- luckylion 7y agoVery little. I use I don't care about cookies [0] for my casual surfing, it automatically dismisses them. [0] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
- marssaxman 7y agoI have made a little game out of ignoring those prompts; I have not yet clicked on one to dismiss it. Just sort of try to filter them out of my awareness like I used to do with banner ads.
- codingdave 7y agoNone. I ignore them. They usually are just an ignorable message on top/bottom of the page. If a site does make a modal prompt about it, I just close the site.
- imhoguy 7y agoNot enough to build a startup to remove them. Actually sometimes they help me to stop procrastinating. These occupying entire page or with some usability issues are effective dopamine circuit breakers.
- wethebestcoder 7y agoTotal time? Very little. Critical time when I just need to be able to use a website. 50%.
- YCstartup2019 7y agoWould ublock origin be able to block those?
- ajeet_dhaliwal 7y agoThe difference in experience browsing the web in the UK vs Canada makes me think the EU made a mistake with these regulations. The end results is basically making things a PITA for the end user. [Edit] I realize I didn't answer the question, the answer is: too much.
- sellingwebsite 7y agoYou can block these using uBlockOrigin. Look for "annoyances" blocklists in the Filter List settings, especially Fanboy's Cookie List
- tobbob 7y agoHowever long it takes to click the button to make it go away is the amount of time wasted. The EU felt it was their right to pass a regulation that achieves nothing other than annoying millions of people several times a day.