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Comment by brk | Hacker News Reader

Shitty dark pattern on the cookie pop-up. Close tab, ignore.

weird, it looks like an actually honest cookie pop-up to me - way more friendly default settings, and the "decline" button is not greyed out.

Maybe I missed the "shitty dark pattern", or I was shown a different popup than you?

Here is the copy-pasted popup text:

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We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential, while others help us to improve this website and your experience.

Essential (selected, not changeable, as essential) External Media (NOT selected by default)

Accept all (white on black button)

Save (white on black button as well )

Individual Privacy Preferences

Cookie Details Privacy Policy

Best Chrome add on: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

> sometimes it will accept all [...] cookie categories

That's a shame, I like the idea of explicitly indicating that I don't want anything more than what's necessary (or at least not indicating that I don't care about them).

Consent-O-Matic lets you choose categories to allow: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Well, you really don't care since you have temporary containers on your news browser installed.

From a technical perspective, if you actually care about cookies, then blame your client for not maintaining your privacy, because that is where your real complaint is.. Not with the site.

The client has a hard time telling useful and tracking cookies apart. The popups do a good job at this, since they don't affect cookies that provide actual functionality. I just don't like having to navigate them.

The popups are useless. Tracking is happening 1st party now too. Now it’s just an annoyance.

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