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A cookie banner is an overlay on a website that usually covers content to inform users about the cookies which are used on a site.
Opt-in
With Opt-in users are usually shown are highlighted cookie banner as soon as a site is visรฎted which asks for permission to set cookies. Often there is also an option to allow only specific cookies.
Opt-out
With Opt-out cookies are set by default as soon as a users visits a site. After cookies are already set the user can decide to opt-out.
This option is not compliant with the GDPR and shouldn't be used.
Bad examples
Sometimes cookie banners are designed in such a way that it is nearly impossible to not allow all cookies. This happpens mainly with:
- Misleading button names,
- Close button for cookie banner is diffult to find or not available at all.
See Also
- cookie
- https://cookieconsentspeed.run/
- https://twitter.com/5tevieM/status/1375116382770171906
- "everytime you try and go on a website" @5tevieM March 25, 2021
- cookie fatigue
- https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1435827240286109702
- "Browsing the web, 2021" @karpathy September 9, 2021