Started by Hannah Kim (@hannahk_ux) ·
why every cookie banner makes 'reject' harder than 'accept'
6 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why are cookie banners everywhere?
- Ended at
- Global Privacy Control
The Trail
- “why do websites have cookie banners” (google.com)
- HTTP cookie (en.wikipedia.org)
- EPrivacy Directive (en.wikipedia.org)
the 'cookie law' is mostly this, not GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation (en.wikipedia.org)
- “dark patterns after the GDPR consent pop-ups study 2020” (google.com)
- Global Privacy Control (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
They come from European rules about getting consent before setting non-essential cookies; the rules never required them to be annoying. A 2020 study of consent pop-ups on popular UK sites found only around 12% met the minimum legal requirements, and the rest used things like pre-ticked boxes or hid 'reject' a click deeper.
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