Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie prompts?

Posted by buboard on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am finding this to have become a major distraction, not only because it steals in sum a few minutes of every day, but because it is a major distraction that disrupts my train of thought, when e.g. looking up on thesaurus. It doesnt help that many sites think it appropriate to prompt again every week.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by luckylion on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:25AM (#21281249)

Very little. I use I don't care about cookies [0] for my casual surfing, it automatically dismisses them.

[0] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by imhoguy on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:50PM (#21285727)

Not enough to build a startup to remove them. Actually sometimes they help me to stop procrastinating. These occupying entire page or with some usability issues are effective dopamine circuit breakers.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by codingdave on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:34PM (#21284394)

None. I ignore them. They usually are just an ignorable message on top/bottom of the page. If a site does make a modal prompt about it, I just close the site.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by ajeet_dhaliwal on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:40PM (#21293420)

The difference in experience browsing the web in the UK vs Canada makes me think the EU made a mistake with these regulations. The end results is basically making things a PITA for the end user. [Edit] I realize I didn't answer the question, the answer is: too much.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by wethebestcoder on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#21285756)

Total time? Very little. Critical time when I just need to be able to use a website. 50%.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by marssaxman on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:17PM (#21283584)

I have made a little game out of ignoring those prompts; I have not yet clicked on one to dismiss it. Just sort of try to filter them out of my awareness like I used to do with banner ads.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by sellingwebsite on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:09PM (#21294217)

You can block these using uBlockOrigin. Look for "annoyances" blocklists in the Filter List settings, especially Fanboy's Cookie List

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by tobbob on Saturday October 19, 2019 @07:54PM (#21301446)

However long it takes to click the button to make it go away is the amount of time wasted. The EU felt it was their right to pass a regulation that achieves nothing other than annoying millions of people several times a day.

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Re:Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie pr... by YCstartup2019 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:57PM (#21288286)

Would ublock origin be able to block those?

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