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Dear webmasters, for “simple” cookies settings windows like this, you should be tortured equally. https://ibb.co/dp89vYQ

You are trying to “make” the users click “Allow all” just to hide this trash as quickly as possible. It is low.



It's not even low, but straight up breaking the regulations which made them put up that banner in the first place. But seems companies haven't yet understood that, nor have governments actually enforced anything so, here we are.


We need a browser extension to delete these stupid cookie consent popups



This gives consent automatically (in an unspecified amount of cases). The correct action is to respond with a "no consent" answer every time, because withdrawing your consent for every single optional cookie category should be the default. People bother you with popups because they hate you, not because they are mandatory.


While it's true that this extension sometimes accepts all cookies, that isn't the case most of the time. From the extension's website:

> In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.

It would be helpful to have a "what did you choose on this site" view though if that doesn't exist yet.


It would be better if the default was to reject always, everywhere. And the "please pander to corporate evil" flag was something to turn on explicitly.


The whole website seems ill-conceived, with popups appearing above the graphs they're supposed to explain and obscuring them.


I read this as a strategic move. As their main goal is to get your name, company, title and email to download the report. So they were showing you snippets of interesting charts and then quickly covering it up.


I guess they make the information on the site unusable to obtain your work e-mail for downloading the pdf.


cockroachlabs..... ;)




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