New top story on Hacker News: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that? 39 by eimrine | 115 comments on Hacker News. I am from a generation that is familiar with banners showing dancing Flash animations from the internets of the 00s, usually some boobs and butts on the middle of the screen, and I still remember that pressing [x] or [close] could either close the banner or do it even bigger. So if the cookie banner's overlay is not hard enough, I am comfortable to read a text through the overlay, but it seems way more broken because the owners of that dancing nudes at least realized that they are disturbing people, and those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user, so cookie banners are noticeable agressiver - nude banners never had an overlay and almost never made the content unreadable before paying attention to them. Some websites might require you to go through the jungle of odd choices about which cookies are accept...
