Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

I've come up with an easy solution, which works almost all the time. When a cookie consent dialog interferes with me using the website, I close the tab and move on.

I've found a high correlation between cookie consent notices and low-signal content, so this strategy has actually saved me a lot of time I would've spent reading/watching something that doesn't help me.

How do you book airline tickets? Ir other critical business ? My doctors office has a cookie banner . Should I just stop going ?

Yeah I agree, that sentiment works if you only consume content online. But for real stuff? Good luck

That's why I said "almost all of the time".

But to the flights example, I was just looking for flights starting at Google Flights, which doesn't have cookie banners, and the two sites I went to for booking also did not have cookie banners.

Which booking website are you going to that doesn't have cookie banners? I spot checked multiple EU and US airlines just now (Ryanair, Air France, United, Alaska) and all of them had a cookie banner.

I started with Google Flights and went to two other sites that it directed me to.

Just to reiterate, I'm not religious about this practice. If I need to click a cookie banner to book a plane ticket, so be it.

I just treat cookie banners as a strong negative signal.

Google, including Google Flights, does have a cookie banner. It's just likely that you already accepted/denied the prompt at some point.

That’s certainly possible. I don’t deny occasionally clicking them. I just don’t bother most of the time.

Edit: I just tried the flight ordering flow again (starting at google.com/flights) in a private/incognito tab, and did not encounter any cookie banners.

any site with a cart or user prefs should have a cookie disclosure

Not all cookie banner implementations are obstructive to the users. Only the ones that really want you click on "accept all" are.

This is not true, cookie disclosure is only required for non-essential cookies.

Well they need to track the above activities

Yes, they are essential. Therefore no permission needed for those.