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There's nothing unsavory about HN using a cookie to label your comments with your username.

Cookie warnings are like "known to the state of California to cause cancer" warnings. If not displaying a warning creates serious risks, and there is no compensation for legal costs to prove that the warning wasn't necessary, everyone will display the warning everywhere as a precaution.

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> There's nothing unsavory about HN using a cookie to label your comments with your username.

True, and if that's all the data collection is about, then there's no need for a cookie banner.

> If not displaying a warning creates serious risks

It does not create serious risks. It's pretty clear what sort of data collection is risky, and any site will know if they're squarely in the "safe zone". The risk is if they want to engage in sensitive data collection, or if they want to push as closely as possible to that.

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