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Ask HN: What percentage of users click 'Reject All'?
When requesting use of personal data on websites it's becoming standard now to have an 'Accept All' and 'Reject All'.
If you run a website, what percentage of uses click 'Accept All' and what percentage click 'Reject All'?
- harel 4y agoI get cookie rage. Some I already know to click details and immediately save for a minimal default. Some I randomly select whatever, some I accept. Then I get asked the same from the same site the next day. I hate this so much that I get desensitized to all forms of tracking.
- saurik 4y agoIt's probably just me, and even I don't have a 100% success rate.
- Smithalicious 4y agoI have been conditioned to click "accept all" because at some point clicking "reject all" almost always lead me to a page saying that I can't use the site without cookies. I don't think this is as universal anymore but I haven't de-conditioned myself yet.
- joe__f 4y agoI always press reject all, and if it doesn't let me use the site I find a different one normally
- Aisen8010 4y agoIs there a browser or extension that selects 'Reject All' for me?
- Laaas 4y agoI use https://github.com/CodyMcCodington/AutoCookieOptout https://github.com/CodyMcCodington/AutoCookieOptout, it works on some of the more common sites.
- hobbitperusal 4y agoI use this one since few weeks: https://www.super-agent.com https://www.super-agent.com
- xigoi 4y agohttps://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/
- nottorp 4y agoThat was fun. I opened the WSJ link from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202295 and consentomatic shrunk the "can we spy on you" popup and then auto scrolled through it and unchecked everything. Not sure how well it worked but it was satisfying.
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- ThePhysicist 4y agoOur stats for heyklaro.com are public [1], the acceptance rate is around 50 %. We've always had a dialog with one-click Accept / Reject flow, even before it became officially mandated. We see similar rates for our customers. 1: https://heyklaro.com/demo https://heyklaro.com/demo
- autoexec 4y agoHow do you log the people who just bypass the thing entirely? Any cookie banners my ad-blocker doesn't kill automatically, I just right click on and remove from the page.
- ThePhysicist 4y agoThe statistic only logs the ratio between accept & reject choices. We also record the showing of the dialogue (and users that go into the modal and customize choices), it's just not shown there. Ignoring the consent banner is fine and should not impact the functionality of the website.
- ponyous 4y agoI did some research recently and found 50-60% to be the norm. On top of that if I remember correctly more than 50% of the websites didn’t even respect the choice. Don’t quote me. Do your own research.
- bravetraveler 4y agoI generally will manually set it to minimum Too often 'reject all' doesn't do what it leads you to believe. I don't have incentive to allow any of it Edit: It's often a ruse anyway. Either changing nothing or not working until you reload, if I remember correctly
- ravenstine 4y agoWho even audits sites for this anyway? Can I file a lawsuit if I find cookies are added even after I click reject all?
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agohttps://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-422-formal-gdpr-complaints-nerve-wrecking-cookie-banners https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-422-formal-gdpr-complaints-ner...
- nottorp 4y agoI click on reject all, if there is no reject all button i do click details and if i don't find a way to turn off everything on the first details page I close the site unread. Also, if your popup says "we care about your privacy" please remove that lie. If you cared about my privacy you wouldn't track me.
- muzani 4y agoCookies are often used for sessions too, not just tracking. I wish the browser world just tightened up its permissions like the mobile world did.
- rlpb 4y agoIf a session is required to service a user's explicit request (eg. "add item to basket" but not "track user for ads") then explicit consent isn't required. The user's explicit request is enough. So there's no conflict.
- muzani 4y agoAh I wasn't aware of that requirement. I thought the pop up was whenever they use cookies for anything (because that is what they make you believe).
- jackbrookes 4y agoIf this was the case, we could just build the cookie consent mechanism into browsers
- nottorp 4y agoStuff required for the actual functioning of the site is explicitly exempted in the GDPR. Generally speaking, do not take your information from whoever is selling you something... or is selling you.
- ratg13 4y agoOP is asking for data that you have collected, not your personal preference. The preferences of the crowd here are largely irrelevant, as the people that frequent this website are typically not average web users.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoI don't care, I click on whatever gets the popup away Accept generally works better, sometimes you get more crap when you reject. Oftentimes you can't even find reject very easily
- marssaxman 4y agoI just zap the popups away using uBlock Origin, without clicking any option.
- dyingkneepad 4y agoCan you please describe what exactly you mean by "zap the popup away using uBlock Origin"?
- marssaxman 4y agouBlock Origin offers two element-picker modes. The lightning-bolt tool deletes whatever you click on, adding a rule blocking that element for future visits. The eyedropper tool does the same, with a preview option and more control over the selector you filter out; this is useful with modal overlays, where the prompt itself may be nested in a screen-filling div, blocking the underlying content. I use these features liberally - for cookie notices, "subscribe to our newsletter" nag boxes, sticky bottom banners, chatbot requests, and everything else which gets in the way. In addition to per-site rules, I have a blanket block on OneTrust, which seems to be the most popular cookie nag system: *###onetrust-consent-sdk
- wayvey 4y agoI do most of the time but I should probably just use some extension to hide the popups or just block cookies in general
- jabroni_salad 4y agoA lot of those prompts make it annoying to use 'reject all' so I have developed muscle memory for slapping a bookmarklet that just removes all sticky elements from the page.
- throwaway378037 4y agoCan you share the bookmarklet? That sounds ideal
- jabroni_salad 4y ago(not my project) https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
- liminalsunset 4y agoI use Temporary Containers on Firefox, so the cookies are deleted after I am done anyway. I always click Accept All to make it go away, if I didn't have the uBlock filter that blocks the popups altogether.
- rlpb 4y agoIs that "Accept all cookies" or "Accept all our terms, not just about cookies but also our rights to your first born"? Did you check? My point is that an "accept all" reflex isn't necessarily safe even if you don't retain cookies.
- EEBio 4y agoGiven that we are talking about a website, what is the worst legal enforceable thing you could agree to in this way? Things like “rights to your first born” are illegal and unenforceable. “you must visit the site everyday from now on” is unenforceable. “or we close your account” - they don’t need your consent for that
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoI generally switch to firefox <readability mode>. It helpfully removes both the popup and the tracking.
- dadoum 4y agoWhen it's too hard to disable cookies, I just disable JavaScript and it works 80 % of time, + it often free up the space on the page.
- Nextgrid 4y agoMy ad-blocker takes care of the majority of these, but if some slip through I will do my best to find the "reject all" option or navigate away if it isn't there. It's unlikely to show up in metrics though because whatever is supposed to collect those metrics would be blocked anyway.
- forgotmypw17 4y agoI have made it a personal philosphy to close any site which hassles me one of these, and the same for sign up for our newsletter. I have noticed that the quality of material I read has gone up in the process.
- orf 4y agohttps://www.super-agent.com/ https://www.super-agent.com/ does it for me automatically, snout 80% of the time.
- Kenneth39 4y agoOf course, the pop-up cookies are annoying, and I could say I don't think about them at all. Most of the time, I click the first thing that comes up. However, I have noticed that this only happens on trusted sites. On sites I don't know, I prefer to either close the window or "reject all." But how it pisses me off!