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Comment by gib444

6 hours ago

Are you in Europe? It's so prevalent here that would usually mean not using the web at all...?

I've also noticed blocking consent/informational banners of sorts when connected to a US VPN becoming more popular

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wongarsu  4 hours ago

It's worth noting that the "obvious dismiss button" that OP allows for is a legal requirement. By law rejecting cookies has to be just as easy as accepting them

Of course in reality enforcement of this is non-existent. Just yesterday I had an especially egregious popup where dismissing it required about 7 button presses (selecting "other options", then manually toggling on 5 categories of use before I was allowed to click "save settings")

  • gib444  3 hours ago

    > It's worth noting that the "obvious dismiss button" ... is a legal requirement

    > Of course in reality enforcement of this is non-existent

    Indeed that was of course worth noting