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If I see an 'accept cookies' banner on a website, I close it
immediately

Enough is enough.

Problem

I think it's no secret that the state of the web nowadays is a mess.
One annoyance that has made the web nearly unusable on many websites
is those big banners that they show you about their cookie policy.
This is because of some EU regulation with good intentions and poor
implementation. On desktop, you can use an extension called "I don't
care about cookies", but on mobile you're left without options.
Especially on iOS, you can't even install the most basic extentions
on Chrome or Firefox (but that's another story). The result? The
cookie banners take up huge real estate on mobile screens that it's
virtually impossible to read the content without interacting with the
banner. Worse yet, if you want to disable cookies, that option is
almost always hidden behind somethig called "cookies preferences".
But is it the end of story? Hell no! When you tap on "cookies
preferences", a new page shows up while the "essential" cookies radio
button is grayed out. So you basically cannot opt out of shady cookie
collections anyway.

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My Solution

You know what? Screw any website that collects cookies (even Medium
does that, but for now, I'm stuck with it...). So now I have decided to
close any non-essential website that does this crap. Am I missing
something? Maybe. For example, there was an article on HN today that
linked to fleksy.com which showed a huge cookie banner on my phone.
Between learning about how swipe key works (the content on their
website) and saving myself from having to tap on small buttons to
close the banner, I chose the latter. I think if more people did
that, websites would be forced to avoid using cookies in such a way
that necessitates a cookie prompt.

PS: I originally posted this on HN, but for some reason it got
flagged which is ironic, because HN doesn't collect cookies.

 
 
 

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