"The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the

"The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the "OK."" Create a problem, the "dark pattern", and then offer a "solution" The source for the "solution" is also the source of the original problem This is one of the various tactics in the SillyCon Valley playbook Use the "solution" or else suffer the problem Consent immediately or suffer the cookie banner Lowbrow, mafia-style persuasion but with cowardly annoyance in place of direct confrontation I never see any cookie banners when there is no Javascript interpreter. No cookies get through the local forward proxy anyway. But that's not SillyCon Valley's "solution" to the annoyance, it's mine