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Used to just click 'accept all cookies' like it was nothing, now I spend 10 minutes hunting for the reject button
I swear, last year I would just smash that accept all button on every site without a second thought. Then I saw a random YouTube video about how those cookies track you across sites, and it freaked me out enough to start denying everything. Now I spend like 10 minutes clicking through each cookie category on a news site just to read one article. Has anyone else noticed those cookie popups are getting harder to navigate?
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rowan217d ago
Spent a good 20 minutes yesterday on a local news site clicking through every single cookie category one by one. The reject all button was hidden under a "customize settings" link that was the same color as the background. Found myself talking to the screen like "I just want the weather forecast, stop trying to sell my data to ad companies." The worst part is when you finally reject everything and the site still loads those tracking scripts anyway. It's making me miss the old days when accept all was the only option and I didn't think twice about it.
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Oh man, I've turned into that guy who sits there clicking "reject all" like it's a personal mission. The other day I spent a solid five minutes on a recipe site just trying to find the tiny gray "settings" link buried in the corner, and by the time I was done my pasta had boiled over. I've definitely become one of those people who mutters "just let me read the dang article" at my screen. Maybe I should just go back to smashing accept all, but then I remember that YouTube video and I can't.
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