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Beautiful technical solution. Wouldn’t it depend on all website creators and all browser makers to pretty much commit to changes in their code at the same time, before the first consent banner would actually go away? How do you get them to do that?

Honestly, I think it is our job as the creators/hackers to come up with a better solution. The problem is very real, and needs to be fixed. But no good solution has ever been created by lawyers. Ever. So here we are, left with a forest of cookie warnings that perfectly break the internet.

So here is a proposal:

What if a user could declare her/his consent settings _before_ opening the website? There would no longer be a need for consent dialogues, right?

One way to achieve that would be to take an example from the UTM parameters. A browser/User could just use ?utm_consent=all, ?utm_consent=minimal, and ?utm_consent=deny to indicate the level of consent. Browsers could offer it as a standard setting and automatically amend it to any URL. Websites could just drop the consent dialogue whenever that UTM is set.

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I totally agree: Developers should show more backbone in situations like these.

The "too costly" mantra really is ridiculous, exactly. Maybe we also need to make sure the people trusted with hiring other people learn that their job is not risk assessment or risk management, but finding great talent.

I don't think its a baby Google thingy. The costs associated with hiring the wrong person are huge. But its not only the money - it really is a pain in the ass and most people trusted with hiring other people at a startup have made many painful experiences in the past. Which, over time, makes them quite risk averse. I think this is the main reason why many startups implement intensive screening processes.

But having an intensive hiring processes doesn't guard you from hiring the wrong person. So they fail again and again, while making the hiring process even harder every time. Its a death spiral. You can easily spot a startup stuck in this death spiral if someone trusted with hiring other people tells you they get a lot of applications but none of them are any good.

I'm sorry that doesn't help you much in your situation, but I hope it explains why you see a lot of defunct hiring processes these days.