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Is there any hard data on what you refer to as "the cookie banner madness"? Personally, I click 'refuse' on every banner that pops up. They're not all that anno

• WA 2y ago
  Way to derail my argument. This is not about literally everybody accepting everything, but that the vast majority of people will accept the default option. This has been studied over and over. The cookie banner madness is that so many cookie options are implemented as dark patterns: consent is easy, rejection is not.
• okasaki 2y ago
  To counter your anecdote, I was doing something on my boss's computer and clicked refuse all on the google prompt. My boss was surprised and said she thought the site wouldn't work if you refused. We're software engineers.
• olyjohn 2y ago
  All you need to do is sit down for a while with people who aren't in our tech bubble and watch them use their stuff. I used to do on-site tech support for people, and I have seen tons and tons of people constantly click dialog boxes without reading them or knowing what they are clicking on. They just want to dismiss them because they are annoying. I had a person who was having a printer problem close a dialog box telling exactly what was wrong with the printer. It came up every single time they tried to print. This is not abnormal behavior. People regularly just click on the default boxes, and you know it's true otherwise there wouldn't be so many dark patterns on the internet. Dark patterns work because people don't read what's on their screen.
• EasyMark 2y ago
  They are extremely annoying in my estimation. That’s why I have 2 extensions running that automatically click opt out 95% of the time. I remember what it was like before that.