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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: 0.216s | source
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snehk ◴[15 Nov 24 07:20 UTC] No.42144605[source]▶
The whole law should have been forcing sites to not ignore DoNotTrack bworser settings. It's a prime example of the EU being utterly useless because they don't understand the underlying issue and then choose a "solution" that's as much in your face as possible but doesn't change anything about the original problem. It's the whole plastic straw thing in digital form.
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1. cenamus ◴[15 Nov 24 08:06 UTC] No.42144827[source]▶
If only those websites just didn't use cookies when 99% of them don't need them. Easy to display the cookie terror banner and blame the EU while you're using it for "analytics".

And the majority isn't even compliant, without a big disable button, instead hiding it through 10 different dark patterns in the cookie setting, where every misclick leads to accepting the whole array of spyware.