I Hate Cookie Consent
adulion
14 points
8 comments
October 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
orphea
> I hate cookie banners. Shows a cookie banner. Did you know that if you don't use cookies (or other persistent tokens) for ads and tracking, you don't need to show the banner? So maybe direct your hate to website owners? And yourself.
chillacy
Cookie banners should really have been a browser preference like "allow microphone" or "allow location", at least the UI would have been the same per site, and the browser can actually enforce.