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

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332 points vegasbrianc | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ryandrake ◴[14 Nov 24 22:58 UTC] No.42142148[source]▶
People blame the cookie banners themselves or the legislation that "made them necessary" but somehow never seem to blame the web companies for doing the naughty things on their websites that make them subject to the law.

The "cookie banner problem" exists because it's primarily end users that are shouldering the burden of them, and not the companies. For the company, it's a one time JIRA ticket for a junior software engineer to code up a banner. For everyone else, it's thousands of wasted seconds per year. Make the law hit companies where it hurts: their balance sheets.

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1. tbrownaw ◴[15 Nov 24 04:36 UTC] No.42144003[source]▶
> somehow never seem to blame the web companies for doing the naughty things on their websites that make them subject to the law.

If I do not want a website to set any cookies, the correct course of action is to tell my user-agent to not keep any cookies from it.

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2. self_awareness ◴[15 Nov 24 07:27 UTC] No.42144642[source]▶
All you can get this way is that you'll still have temporary cookies, removed after closing the tab, you will still have the banner, but this time the banner will popup each time you'll enter the website, because there's no cookie that will tell the banner that it has already been displayed.

I have it like this. But with that, I'm using a banner autoclicker. So the company gets my data, although different each time I enter the website, and I don't see any banners. Win/win?