<story><title>It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/unethical-design-of-cookie-consent-windows-857ef68f1bd6?gi=d060c7b22ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjoff</author><text>No thanks. Stop normalizing this bullshit.&lt;p&gt;First, every shady website that despite the UX detriments decide that they want to sell their users must publicly state that. &lt;i&gt;That is a feature.&lt;/i&gt; I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns they are willing to go to absolutely ruin any trust they imagine they could exploit.&lt;p&gt;Second, while (most of) these popups are illegal it is so abundantly clear what and how they are trying to get away with it. If the &amp;quot;browser&amp;quot; did this for me I wouldn&amp;#x27;t know what absolute illegal nonsense they would try to sneak in via &amp;quot;legitimate interest&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Third, normal decently behaved sites&amp;#x2F;operators obviously don&amp;#x27;t have cookie-banners at all. That is also a feature, it is an edge. If you see two sites for X one with a cookie-banner and one without it is clear as day which one you&amp;#x27;d close and forget.&lt;p&gt;The times I&amp;#x27;ve backed out of sites because of cookie banners is uncountable. And it is liberating.</text></item><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>IMO, focusing on better UX is the wrong approach.&lt;p&gt;This should be handled at the browser level. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for most users to ever be burdened with even a fantastically designed cookie consent window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>divan</author><text>I believe by &amp;quot;handling at the browser level&amp;quot; people generally mean the option in the Settings that allow autoaccept &amp;quot;necessary&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; cookies. If you care, just leave it unchecked.</text></comment>
<story><title>It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/unethical-design-of-cookie-consent-windows-857ef68f1bd6?gi=d060c7b22ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjoff</author><text>No thanks. Stop normalizing this bullshit.&lt;p&gt;First, every shady website that despite the UX detriments decide that they want to sell their users must publicly state that. &lt;i&gt;That is a feature.&lt;/i&gt; I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns they are willing to go to absolutely ruin any trust they imagine they could exploit.&lt;p&gt;Second, while (most of) these popups are illegal it is so abundantly clear what and how they are trying to get away with it. If the &amp;quot;browser&amp;quot; did this for me I wouldn&amp;#x27;t know what absolute illegal nonsense they would try to sneak in via &amp;quot;legitimate interest&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Third, normal decently behaved sites&amp;#x2F;operators obviously don&amp;#x27;t have cookie-banners at all. That is also a feature, it is an edge. If you see two sites for X one with a cookie-banner and one without it is clear as day which one you&amp;#x27;d close and forget.&lt;p&gt;The times I&amp;#x27;ve backed out of sites because of cookie banners is uncountable. And it is liberating.</text></item><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>IMO, focusing on better UX is the wrong approach.&lt;p&gt;This should be handled at the browser level. There&amp;#x27;s no reason for most users to ever be burdened with even a fantastically designed cookie consent window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>froh</author><text>You decline &amp;quot;legitimate interest&amp;quot;, too, in your browser presets, of course you do.&lt;p&gt;And if it goes via browser you can deliberately choose advertisers you trust, centrally in one place.&lt;p&gt;Of course I want this in the browser.</text></comment>