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Cookie consent banners are the worst. I could swear that every single one I‘ve ever encountered has „Accept all“ as primary call to action. On top of that some

Cookie consent banners are the worst. I could swear that every single one I‘ve ever encountered has „Accept all“ as primary call to action. On top of that some employ opt-out forms made in hell, where one has to manually click through half a dozen of checkboxes while „Accept all“ is still the primary action at the bottom of said form. I‘m not only incredibly annoyed by constantly being greeted with obtrusive overlays and huge banners, I‘ve also given up on opting out a long time ago[1]. Arguably this part of GDPR failed miserably. [1] Manually opting out that is, I‘m blocking trackers on DNS level and via browser plugins.

number6 5y ago
I don't think it's the GDPRs fault. It just states, that if you want to use personal data you have to have a legal basis. One is consent, but consent has to be given freely and informed. For my part I find that totally reasonable. What cookie banners try to negate is the fact that most people just don't want to be tracked.
wyattpeak 5y ago
> Arguably this part of GDPR failed miserably. I'd definitely argue against that. For a hot minute they were truly terrible, with occasionally hundreds of tickboxes (Looking at you Techcrunch). Now 80% of sites I go to seem to use the same provider, which has a primary "Accept all", but rejecting all is usually a matter of clicking 3-4 radio buttons and a secondary "Confirm choices" button. That's still pretty damned dark pattern-y, no doubt, but it's light years better than my previous options of either accepting or accepting.
- visarga 5y ago
  Wasn't there an auto-GDPR clicker extension to help us get rid of them?
stareatgoats 5y ago
Agree, my main gripe with cookie banners is that they are designed to make you "accept all". But is has less to do with the layout of the banner than the fact that they pop up the second you enter the site, at which moment the mind will find all popups an annoying distraction (hence 'Accept all'). GDPR should require all websites to have their cookie settings under a standard icon in the top row of the screen, which you could scrutinize and tweak at leisure. As it stands you have one shot, short of clearing all cookies.
Macha 5y ago
Mobile dialogs where accept all is nice big touch area and "Options" is a link where you need to scroll it into view and the touch area is small and right against the accept button are another peeve.
zeta0134 5y ago
The worst part of this is that if you know how to do it, it's trivial to have your browser just clear the cookies at the end of the session... including the one that dismisses the cookie form from hell, and the cycle repeats...
Grustaf 5y ago
The fact that most websites asks me to accept cookies _every single time_ I visit is quite reassuring. If they can't even remember that I've visited their site a hundred times before, I'm not so worried about their tracking.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  They're probably just faking it to make you think that.

number6 5y ago

I don't think it's the GDPRs fault. It just states, that if you want to use personal data you have to have a legal basis. One is consent, but consent has to be given freely and informed. For my part I find that totally reasonable. What cookie banners try to negate is the fact that most people just don't want to be tracked.

wyattpeak 5y ago

> Arguably this part of GDPR failed miserably. I'd definitely argue against that. For a hot minute they were truly terrible, with occasionally hundreds of tickboxes (Looking at you Techcrunch). Now 80% of sites I go to seem to use the same provider, which has a primary "Accept all", but rejecting all is usually a matter of clicking 3-4 radio buttons and a secondary "Confirm choices" button. That's still pretty damned dark pattern-y, no doubt, but it's light years better than my previous options of either accepting or accepting.

visarga 5y ago
Wasn't there an auto-GDPR clicker extension to help us get rid of them?

stareatgoats 5y ago

Agree, my main gripe with cookie banners is that they are designed to make you "accept all". But is has less to do with the layout of the banner than the fact that they pop up the second you enter the site, at which moment the mind will find all popups an annoying distraction (hence 'Accept all'). GDPR should require all websites to have their cookie settings under a standard icon in the top row of the screen, which you could scrutinize and tweak at leisure. As it stands you have one shot, short of clearing all cookies.

Macha 5y ago

Mobile dialogs where accept all is nice big touch area and "Options" is a link where you need to scroll it into view and the touch area is small and right against the accept button are another peeve.

zeta0134 5y ago

The worst part of this is that if you know how to do it, it's trivial to have your browser just clear the cookies at the end of the session... including the one that dismisses the cookie form from hell, and the cycle repeats...

Grustaf 5y ago

The fact that most websites asks me to accept cookies _every single time_ I visit is quite reassuring. If they can't even remember that I've visited their site a hundred times before, I'm not so worried about their tracking.

CRConrad 5y ago
They're probably just faking it to make you think that.