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

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332 points vegasbrianc | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | 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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freeone3000 ◴[14 Nov 24 23:15 UTC] No.42142290[source]▶
So remove the consent exception against tracking? Simply make it illegal, banner or no?
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1. ikekkdcjkfke ◴[15 Nov 24 07:11 UTC] No.42144578[source]▶
Do Not Track header? It's the silver bullet but the stakeholders will argue it is invalid and cannot possibly be used to inform the server that the client wishes not to be tracked
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2. Earw0rm ◴[15 Nov 24 07:45 UTC] No.42144725[source]▶
Someone needs to put a stake in those stakeholders.
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3. account42 ◴[15 Nov 24 12:26 UTC] No.42146282[source]▶
The only way to permanently rid yourself of information vampires.