Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when you hover over it

Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by drusepth on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:45PM (#29752856)

What exactly moves? I'm looking at the banner at the top, and nothing moves when I hover over the "Define settings" or "Accept all" buttons, or any of the text links in the banner (in Chrome, Linux).

Edit: turns out it only swaps under some conditions, according to the prettied code here [1]. One of those conditions is having a touch screen, which my laptop does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753092

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by fart32 on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:49PM (#29752882)

When I hover over the "Define settings" button, it swaps with the other button.

To me, all this cookie consent is just a stupid game. This one is at least fun.

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by kcartlidge on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:12AM (#29757107)

My laptop doesn't have a touch screen (M1 Air with Safari), and "Define Settings" moves when I go for it. So that check is either wrong or misleading.

Made me chuckle, though. And to be fair there is an option to "Decline Cookies" - which doesn't move.

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by sjhuang26 on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:49PM (#29752884)

Same for me. I tried it on both Opera and Firefox (Linux desktop).

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by jefftk on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:48PM (#29752873)

I'm also using Chrome, and when I hover over "define settings" it swaps positions with "accept all"

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by nusaru on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:49PM (#29752883)

The "Accept All" button moves when I hover over "Define Settings" but it's a bit flaky.

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by gus_massa on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:49PM (#29752879)

It moves the button for me in Chrome. Do you have javascript disabled?

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by drusepth on Friday December 31, 2021 @05:52PM (#29753363)

I do not. They animate (fading a little bit), but they don't swap, even after a bunch of page reloads. Turns out the swap is disabled if you have a touch screen.

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Re:Website moves the “change cookie settings” button when yo... by unholiness on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:48PM (#29752875)

Do you have JS diabled? For me they animate and swap.

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