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The more aggressive and dark-UX the banner is, the more likely I am to spend time figuring out how to reject everything or to just close the tab right away. If
by seba_dos1 5y ago
The more aggressive and dark-UX the banner is, the more likely I am to spend time figuring out how to reject everything or to just close the tab right away.
If it doesn't try to trick me into accepting things, I sometimes actually consider doing that.
Why don't I just accept them all? No idea. Out of spite? Principles? Because I have too much time? Because my mind is too eager to get distracted with the popup? The fact that the only reason to even show these popups is for the website to do non-essential things that aren't actually in my interest? All of the above? Use of tasteless dark UX patterns doesn't even instill trust in me that these choices are actually respected in any way, to put it lightly.
- thejackgoode 5y agoI do the same every time, except the most complex cases. Them I started to treat as paywalls -- just close the page, I wasn't so interested in this information anyway.
- Robotbeat 5y agoI do right-click -> inspect element and then delete the pop-up element in the browser source viewer thing on chrome. Sometimes I have to find where it says “overflow” and set it to “overflow: visible” or something like that. Remarkable how often that works.
- seba_dos1 5y agoYup, that's one of the strategies I sometimes employ as well :)
- jeroenhd 5y agoThis extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-elements/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-el... has worked wonders for me for naive stalking popups. Some sites disable scrolling until the popup has sufficiently annoyed the user into clicking "accept all", though.
- andrewaylett 5y agoThere's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a..., which is specifically targeting cookie banners.
- mike-cardwell 5y agoI do kind of the same in Firefox with ublock origin, making it permanent. "Right click", Block Element". I also added a userContent.css file to my firefox profile, which adds the following style to every page on every website, so I don't have to deal with the overflow shite: html, body { overflow-y: initial !important; }
- autoexec 5y agoFirefox has an add-on "nuke anything" where you can just right click on anything on a page and remote it. handles these banners pretty well
- bdlowery 5y agoIf you don’t accept or decline the cookie pop up I’m pretty sure every website treats it as a “yes you can track me”. Like those websites that have a banner stating “by using this website you agree to let us track you with cookies”