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

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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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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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Would ublock origin be able to block those?

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