Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?

Post by pavas » Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 1:14 AM UTC

giladvdn wrote: post #12

foft wrote: post #8

Cookie permissions and EU advertising options should absolutely be built into the browser, it makes no sense for the user to have permissions on each site individually like this with a different system on each one. Then the user can centrally review what permissions they gave, revoke them etc. So no sites should have these kind of approval banners.

Huh, I think I agree. Not only are the banners slow, obnoxious, have a tendency to being manipulative and are different for every website, a web developer can easily ignore the user's choice and track them anyway. Apple made a big leap with the “ask app not to track” and I think browsers should have this as well. If only to get rid of those infernal banners.

Post by graftak » Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

TrueDuality wrote: post #50

starbugs wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to point out that I answered the question even if not using cookies is not an option. But to elaborate a bit: At least in Germany (and I believe this applies more or less everywhere) if you install a 1st-party tracking method based on 1st-party cookies, that doesn't fall under the 3rd-party consent requirement and you don't need consent. That means you can track your valuable retention numbers and won't need…

Thank you. I have done so many implementations of GDPR. The cookie consent pop-ups everywhere are only needed because of how aggressive these third parties collect information (and that they _are_ third parties). Just don't collect PII beyond was is absolutely essential for your application, and don't share it with third parties. Bam you don't have to get consent. Knowing what classifies as PII is still a hard proble…

Post by reportgunner » Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 5:58 AM UTC

Post by eviks » Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 6:05 AM UTC

sshine wrote: post #71

Least intrusive: Make it take up so little space that you don’t even need to close it, make the accept button green and the deny button red, and let there be no consequence if neither is clicked. Don’t make anyone aware of the ambiguity that not clicking it is neither consent or denial. Pointing out this stuff forces you into the path of requiring that people click on it before being able to navigate the website, whi…

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 7:12 AM UTC

LordHeini wrote: post #30

Apart from the others suggestions. Make sure that it does work with extensions like I don't care about cookies. That one is usually easy but make sure it works with the uBlock script too. Do not have that the banner force any site reloads. Analytics for example can be loaded into a page wihtout reloading. If that is done the ad blocker users will never notice the banner.