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It should be a browser option, not per site pop-up
Consent-O-Matic addon for Firefox makes it very easy. Its not perfect, but it works so well that every time it doesnt work, I sort of stare at the screen, waiting for it to do its thing, for a good 10-15 seconds, before snapping out of it and realising I need to do something.
Same. “What is this thing I am presented with, this is not the content I came here for? … Oh right, cookies.”
I was going to dismiss this because
- we know already
- looking at the rest of the world through US-shaded glasses
but this quote rocks:
Blaming GDPR for the cookie banner is like blaming the health inspector for the roaches. The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the “OK.”
Cookie banners are malicious compliance*.
What follows is just as quote-worthy, e.g.:
On May 25th, 2018, GDPR took effect to the sound of American commentary, the way fireworks take effect to the sound of dogs.
* edit: he says that himself later. I like this guy.
I was honestly sooo incredibly proud when my boss told me: “We’ll do everything to avoid having to present a cookie banner. See that nothing links to Google or Facebook, I want the most information we can get about our visitors while as little as is needed to be GDPR compliant and give nothing to big data.”
The result is we’ll collect data about how visitors use the website without any personal information, completely anonymous until you log in. No ads, no tracking, no Google Analytics and no active social media snippets until the user themself activates them. And we were still able to see what was doing good or doing bad on the site.
I find it weird how many people actually blame GDPR for cookie banners. I mean, yes. I think they should have probably written the law a little bit better to avoid this situation. But malicious compliance is a thing in many laws.
I also hate how many websites are trying to blackmail me now with “pay or we use your data”
I love cookie banners because it lets me see up front what sites I should avoid.
Cookie banners have lead me to disposable tabs. On my phone everything is opened by default in a Firefox private tab or Firefox focus. Then it gets scrapped. If it’s something I care to keep open, then I’ll open it in a regular tab. Fuck these garbage companies ruining the internet.
I love the passive aggressive ones that say “we love our European visitors” only to block all access to the site because they’re not allowed to sell our data.
Despite not trying to fuck over my fellow online users, I do hate the GDPR as well, at least the current implementation. Now every stupid site ask for my ‘consent’. Some are maliciously compliant by taking half my browser view, and there’s nothing in that rule saying they cannot do that; hell, some even take so much space in only leave a sliver of the article just to be petty.
I hate cookie banners because UX keep going “We keep getting holes in our analytics!” and blaming me for it. I understand the whole “We want to see at what point people are dropping out of the login process so we can make it easier for them to complete the journey” but it’s still fucking annoying when they complain about analytics drops when our users are naturally very privacy focused and I can’t control whether they deny cookies or not!
There might be ways of tracking without using cookies, but I’m apparently not allowed to use those because the GA is controlled by someone other than me.
As a user I don’t have a problem with analytics until I get tracked after I leave the site.
as a user I have, if it happens before clicking the accept button. even when there was no choice.
I can count on one hand how many times I clicked the accept button.
