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> BBC Weather’s homepage is a content-rich page. Users have a reason to be looking at it and to be looking for an extended period of time. Most of that rich co
by airpoint 2y ago
> BBC Weather’s homepage is a content-rich page. Users have a reason to be looking at it and to be looking for an extended period of time.
Most of that rich content is obstructed by them bloody cookie warnings, on first visit.
That’s not a very convincing simulation of “I’ve been looking at this page for the last 5 mins!”
- colanderman 2y agoI often leave cookie popovers unclicked. Sometimes they take an annoying amount of work to decline cookies, and they can be used to cover video ads anyway.
- cwillu 2y agoHmm, I don't get a cookie banner on my browser, even in an incognito window with uBlock turned off.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoI get one here in the UK, in incognito. It's actually one of the nicest cookie banners you'll ever see—just 75px tall at the top of the page, and it doesn't float so it disappears when you scroll. I recommend at least trying to see it, to appreciate its superiority over all the other cookie banners.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI'd rather they just didn't track me.
- JacketPotato 2y agoThey're also used for stuff like storing which locations you search for, a pretty important feature. They probably also use them for analytics though.
- razakel 2y agoThey don't if you're in the UK.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI'm in the UK and I get the analytics cookies notice.
- razakel 2y agoPerformance analytics isn't quite the same thing as "hoover up all your personal information" analytics.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoBut does it even require a cookie banner ?