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I suppose I could understand this complaint more if this was an unusual sight to behold, but surely you see this pattern a million times a day like the rest of society?

I guess it just seems like it's a little overly pedantic, like those people that insist every intersection be replaced with a roundabout because it's more efficient for traffic. It misses the point.

I think the law requiring websites to show the stupid things at every turn was a bad one. It should have been required of browsers to come up with some kind of one-time-per-user configuration standard of data collection and just be done with it. To me, that's better to do it once or twice per computer or whatever the case is, than with every little single-purpose website that someone browses to.

Anyhow, I misread your original complaint anyways, I should've read more carefully before typing. That's my mistake.



No, I don't? And I doubt "the rest of society" does either?

(Most sites that show a consent banner tend to still "just work" even if you don't click any of the buttons - which is a fine way to comply with an idiotic law. They don't throw up a full page "give us your data before we show you anything" =)




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