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Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] slurp 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or maybe it should only be opt in to cookies, and no bundling them with nonfunctional ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no bundling, functional cookies don't even need consent, sites can just use them without asking (some sites still give a heads-up though). Any site asking for permission for cookies is using them to track you and most likely sell your information.

[–] slurp 1 points 1 week ago

There are some third party cookies that facilitate additional functionality like integration with other services that people might want to opt in to.