I don’t know why so many companies implement the cookie banner in such an intentionally obtrusive way. Has there ever been any instance ever of a company being

I don’t know why so many companies implement the cookie banner in such an intentionally obtrusive way. Has there ever been any instance ever of a company being fined because their cookie banner was confined to a small widget with an X in the bottom of the page? It’s not like framing your “consent screen” in a giant modal is going to make up for the 100 checkboxes behind the “advanced” link that each require a separate HTTP request to disable. Or that after disabling them, you’re lucky if they stay disabled for longer than the page session. And it doesn’t shake the feeling that “disabling” a tracker generates more signal than the tracker itself. Anyone who implements this at their company is an idiot and an enabler. The profiteering companies encouraging the practice are little better then Outbrain, Disqus or Google AMP – an absolute cancer on the web. Oh, and I bet they’ve got lobbyists too. If you work as a developer at a company building consent modals, you are truly a useful idiot.