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Most of the "turn off a zillion different switches" banners say something like "Powered by OneTrust". There's like 3-4 names I've seen on them, that's just the

Most of the "turn off a zillion different switches" banners say something like "Powered by OneTrust". There's like 3-4 names I've seen on them, that's just the only one I remember. There is now an entire sector of the adtech industry devoted to making a GDPR-compliance solution that is carefully designed to make it just frustrating enough that most people hit "sure gimme all the cookies, whatever, I just wanna read this stupid link". Someone was paid well to build these despite any moral qualms they may have had about making the entire Web a little bit shittier.

mrweasel 3y ago
Exactly, these all look and feel the same, because they are all a third-party "add-on" that websites simply load in via a JavaScript snippet. There a handful of providers, many of which got their start with the original cookie banners. I worked with one of these original cookie banners and the company behind it was absolute shit and understood nothing about how the internet works. You'd slap their JavaScript snippet on your site, they'd then "scan" your site and figure out which cookies appeared and what they did and display that to your customers, so you'd be complaint, technically. Except they didn't recognize half the cookies (and funnily enough still don't 10+ years later), they didn't understand that you don't need to display the session cookie, if it's just used to keep track of your basket or if you're authenticate, and they didn't scan behind authenticated pages. These same bozos just extended their business when GDPR was enacted. They still understand nothing, they still do not care about why the law was created. All they do is provide a service that companies can buy and then continue to not change their business practices. This what these popup and banners are for, their are designed to avoid having to change an industry that has zero interest in your privacy. It's actually remarkable that websites will accept a shitty user experience, if it means that they can track whatever percentage click accept.

mrweasel 3y ago

Exactly, these all look and feel the same, because they are all a third-party "add-on" that websites simply load in via a JavaScript snippet. There a handful of providers, many of which got their start with the original cookie banners. I worked with one of these original cookie banners and the company behind it was absolute shit and understood nothing about how the internet works. You'd slap their JavaScript snippet on your site, they'd then "scan" your site and figure out which cookies appeared and what they did and display that to your customers, so you'd be complaint, technically. Except they didn't recognize half the cookies (and funnily enough still don't 10+ years later), they didn't understand that you don't need to display the session cookie, if it's just used to keep track of your basket or if you're authenticate, and they didn't scan behind authenticated pages. These same bozos just extended their business when GDPR was enacted. They still understand nothing, they still do not care about why the law was created. All they do is provide a service that companies can buy and then continue to not change their business practices. This what these popup and banners are for, their are designed to avoid having to change an industry that has zero interest in your privacy. It's actually remarkable that websites will accept a shitty user experience, if it means that they can track whatever percentage click accept.