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Comment by GrayShade | Hacker News Reader

> For example making the "Accept all cookies" button require less effort than only accepting necessary cookies, which almost every page does.

Like those that make you uncheck 10 or 20 entries one by one.

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The best ones are the ones that provide a list to 100 partners and ask you to visit them to opt out. Usually just close the tab when I hit one of those.

Those are the worst. And calling them “legitimate interest” only adds insult to injury.

Also the providers that appear to offer a even choice of accept all/reject all, except you realise that they've classified a second "legitimate interest" option for everything which the reject all doesn't cover (because that would be objecting, not rejecting)

Or like those that make the "Accept all cookies" button green and the "accept necessary" white/colorless/default.

I recently came across a website that makes the "Accept all cookies" button secondary and the the "accept necessary" primary. It's such an effort to actually press the primary button — I have been so trained by the completely disdainful behavior of the majority of websites.

I saw the exact same thing and was surprised too! I wonder if it was a site that was on HN...

I press "accept all" by accident and thought "wow".

Well I needed to visit the website due to an unfortunate event in meatspace - in no way hacker news related. So it seems there's definitely at least two sites which do it!

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