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

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332 points vegasbrianc | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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coldpie ◴[14 Nov 24 22:44 UTC] No.42141996[source]▶
Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there.

If you're on iOS, the Kill Sticky bookmarklet does a decent job of cleaning these up without breaking most sites: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

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serial_dev ◴[14 Nov 24 23:01 UTC] No.42142175[source]▶
While I appreciate your workarounds, the issue is not fixed. Almost everyone is going to keep clicking these stupid banners. It’s not okay, it’s not fixed until the rules are adjusted and we have less tracking and’s less pointless banners.
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seeknotfind ◴[14 Nov 24 23:05 UTC] No.42142205[source]▶
So many pop-ups these days, for every little thing. Tracking. OS permissions. Browser permissions. Take a survey. Speak to our AI assistant. Do you agree to this. Donate. Sign up. Pay. So many clicks. Used to be viruses, but we have the same result with our complexity.
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1. Gud ◴[15 Nov 24 06:08 UTC] No.42144325{3}[source]▶
Most of them I don’t get because I don’t use a user hostile operating system.

And it’s not really complexity, it’s deliberate choices being made.

The internet used to be run by technologists.

Now it’s run by project managers and web monkeys