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> Hush is a throwback to the days when good clever people made good clever things It is sad the author believes that cookies banner is here only because websit
by rakoo 6y ago
> Hush is a throwback to the days when good clever people made good clever things
It is sad the author believes that cookies banner is here only because website owners don't care about design anymore. Banners are absolutely annoying by design because owners want people to be annoyed and click "I accept everything" to not be annoyed anymore. Owners could very well make those banners disappear with one simple trick: just don't collect any information.
The "golden past" isn't one where they used to care about users' experience, it's one where they didn't have to care about users' privacy. I personally highly welcome the change and try to websites that don't care about my privacy by default.
- jolux 6y agoPlenty of those cookie banners specifically make it harder to opt out of inessential cookies, though. That part bothers me a lot.
- rakoo 6y agoThat's by design, they want you to click on "I accept everything" without reading. It's the choice that the website owners did
- bombcar 6y agoMany websites implemented the banner because other websites are implementing them. There’s a lot of bandwagons out there.
- macinjosh 6y agoThe EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone to do it.
- Shared404 6y agoThe EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone who already should have been doing it to do it. A bunch of other people just jumped on the bandwagon.
- yoz-y 6y agoIt's a bit puzzling, why would you add an annoying banner for 'fashion' purposes? It's more work and if you don't believe it's useful (in this case to shield yourself from potential legal trouble) why would you do it?
- Shared404 6y agoThe key part is that many people do believe it's useful when it's not. It's management/legal saying "Oh no, we use cookies! We need a cookie banner!", even though the only cookie used is to track state or some such thing which doesn't fall under GDPR.
- bombcar 6y agoExactly. You "have to have one" even if it is nonsensical or meaningless (a number of these banners are on sites where the ONLY cookie ever recorded is one saying you've seen the banner!).
- jen20 6y agoTwo options exist: 1) ask for consent for personal data you are taking 2) do not take personal data. The latter is clearly preferable.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe thing is, the EU is not using the force of the law because the law explicitly bans annoying or misleading consent prompts, so should the law be enforced, the problem would self-resolve very quickly.