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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

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332 points vegasbrianc | 4 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.793s | source
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sccomps ◴[14 Nov 24 23:01 UTC] No.42142176[source]▶
A lot of those hours might be saved if they mandate a “reject all cookies” button on the cookie banner.
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Cthulhu_ ◴[14 Nov 24 23:08 UTC] No.42142230[source]▶
They do already, and big companies have already been fined for not offering them, which led to some smaller parties adding them. See here [0] for a list, amongst which was Microsoft getting a $65 million fine for not having an easy opt-out on Bing, or $162 million to Google for the same thing. Noncompliance should be reported.

[0] https://www.cookieyes.com/blog/cookie-consent-fines/

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1. what ◴[15 Nov 24 03:35 UTC] No.42143758[source]▶
Everyone should just geo block EU visitors instead.
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2. taosx ◴[15 Nov 24 04:05 UTC] No.42143875[source]▶
I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind that.

1. There are ways to bypass geo-block.

2. People would build alternatives specifically for EU (with few exceptions).

3. They could even offer those alternatives to US, but with better privacy out of the box.

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3. Sakos ◴[15 Nov 24 06:59 UTC] No.42144522[source]▶
Yeah, fuck everybody else's privacy. /s Why are you like this?
4. marcosdumay ◴[15 Nov 24 15:55 UTC] No.42148013[source]▶
On #1, yeah, you can. But don't expect the site to respect the EU laws.

I'm all for the hostile corporation to hostilize themselves into complete inaccessibility too. Let them build their castle, with a moat, and not let anyone near them. But unfortunately, they are still smarter than that.

(But anyway, they seem to be getting dumber by the minute, so there's still hope.)