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I like them. They are a sure signal which websites to avoid. Same as 'allow notification' banners.

Although, to be honest, some (smaller) sites do it just because 'everybody does that' and they think they have to to comply to the law.

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It hasn't made me stop visiting any sites because the banners are almost omnipresent, but I've started using incognito mode way more, so I can blindly accept whatever the site wants me to.

A clickbaitey site I visited recently detected incognito mode and would not let me in. I don't remember if it had a simple overlay or missing content, since I immediately went away.

An ad provider might connect your incognito session with your regular session. Especially if you blindly click “accept”, since then you might agree to being tracked across sessions and devices.

Well, many sites include cookies to link devices as required cookies anyway. So even if you reject the rest, you are still accepting some form of "device linking". It's hopeless.

> I like them. They are a sure signal which websites to avoid. Same as 'allow notification' banners.

Agreed. I learned to ignore banners, but when I see a modal forcing me to do an action before proceeding, I can be 100% sure they're up to something slimy. So most of the time I just give up, I don't care that much about your website to lose my precious time clicking on stupid buttons.

Same here. It's very off-putting, no matter how interested I am in the content. Some other such deterrents for me are the usual autoplaying media, newsletter popups, and blog-spam recommendations.

Lately, I've also included in-your-face code of conduct or diversity rules, and fixed-position author portraits in blogs.

For YouTube it's opening with "hey guys!11!", forced hand gestures, manic editing (where pauses between phrases are shorter than between words), and superfluous stock imagery.

Life's too short and it's only getting shorter.

yeah, i've set firefox to always reject notification and location requests unless i override it (for e.g: notifications for whatsapp web or a few other websites) - i'd rather not waste the mental energy being grumpy at a site for requesting location for the most trivial crap.

This approach doesn’t seem viable. The banners are on >95% of the sites I visit.

Same for me. But now it's mostly 'used to visit'.

I hate them. But yes, whenever I see a banner, I close the browser tab. And that happens to more and more sites, which tell me: more and more sites are crap. I'm better off living without them.

It's a checklist item in marketing agencies

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