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forgotmypw17 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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tonymet ◴[] No.45675381{3}[source]
any site with a cart or user prefs should have a cookie disclosure
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forgotmypw17 ◴[] No.45676297{4}[source]
This is not true, cookie disclosure is only required for non-essential cookies.
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1. tonymet ◴[] No.45678153{5}[source]
Well they need to track the above activities
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2. tikotus ◴[] No.45678945[source]
Yes, they are essential. Therefore no permission needed for those.