> Why make it so big? I know it's perfectly legal to make it small and unannoying. Likely because when it was small, not enough users clicked 'I accept" to al

> Why make it so big? I know it's perfectly legal to make it small and unannoying. Likely because when it was small, not enough users clicked 'I accept" to allow tracking such that their advertisers balked and wanted to pay much less per eyeball. So the response was "force the user to click "I accept" before they see the content, then the tracking cookies can be set and we can get a larger ad revenue share". > I obviously know I can get rid of it by pressin "I accept" I generally do one of two things: 1) delete the overlay with dev tools 2) leave the page Which one I do depends upon how interested I might be in reading the content. But I never, ever, click the "I accept" link.