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Re:Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign by emacdona on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:16PM (#50398656)
OMG. The site had a popup banner to tell me that they don't have a cookie banner? What the actual f*?

Either:

* They actually decided to remove one of the most annoying things about the modern web... and replace it with something very similar to tell you that they removed it, or...

* They found some legal justification for getting me to accept their cookies for dismissing the "no cookie banner banner"

Either choice makes me think less of them.

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Re:Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign by handoflixue on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:51PM (#50398992)
If you'd bothered to read the banner, it answers your question: "Zero cookies, zero trackers, zero pixels."

Then it links to a page which is even more explicit about how little they collect: https://www.infohawk.com/cookies

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Re:Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign by emacdona on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:31PM (#50400404)
Oh, I had bothered to read the banner. And I clicked the link.

My point is: they did all the necessary work required (no third party tracking cookies) to NOT HAVE TO show a banner...

... and then they chose to show a banner.

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Re:Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign by rationalist on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:38PM (#50399450)
I only clicked on the link after reading your comment. Yep, what that website is doing is obnoxious. A little less obnoxious than a cookie banner, but more obnoxious than not having any banner or modal.
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