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

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582 points SweetSoftPillow | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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forgotmypw17 ◴[22 Oct 25 15:29 UTC] No.45670627[source]▶
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.

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tonymet ◴[22 Oct 25 15:44 UTC] No.45670878[source]▶
How do you book airline tickets? Ir other critical business ? My doctors office has a cookie banner . Should I just stop going ?
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forgotmypw17 ◴[22 Oct 25 16:14 UTC] No.45671373[source]▶
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.

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1. macbr ◴[22 Oct 25 18:24 UTC] No.45673164{3}[source]▶
Google, including Google Flights, does have a cookie banner. It's just likely that you already accepted/denied the prompt at some point.
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2. forgotmypw17 ◴[22 Oct 25 18:52 UTC] No.45673518[source]▶
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.