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Usually when I'm visiting a website, it's one of many sites/articles/search results I could be looking at. If a site tells me something like: - Sign up fo

Usually when I'm visiting a website, it's one of many sites/articles/search results I could be looking at. If a site tells me something like: - Sign up for a newsletter! - Please turn off your adblocker! - Please accept our use of cookies to continue - Pardon the interruption... I close the tab and try the next search result/article/whatever I want to see. Websites don't exist in a vacuum. Nearly always, they have to compete for my attention with other possible uses of my time. I'm going to pick the one that wastes my time the least.

collyw 7y ago
I am the same with most of those. Medium being a particular pain in the butt. But almost every website uses cookies, I don't see them being such a problem.
- ninkendo 7y ago
  Yeah, I guess it's not that I don't want to accept cookies, it's that I don't want to reject them either (I'd rather close the tab than do either one.) This sounds like GDPR is a bad thing for people like me, but I view it as a long game: as sites see increased bounce rates due to cookie popups, maybe it'll change the equation in favor of not having tracking cookies in the first place. I feel like I'm doing my part to help create that future every time I close the tab when getting nagged about cookies. (And GDPR doesn't require dialogs about all cookies, you're allowed to use cookies to have sessions/logons without nagging.)