alt Hacker NewsOMG. The site had a popup banner to tell me that they don't have a cookie banner? What the actual f____?
Either:
- They actually decided to remove one of the most annoying things about the modern web... and replace it with something very similar to tell you that they removed it, or...
- They found some legal justification for getting me to accept their cookies for dismissing the "no cookie banner banner"
Either choice makes me think less of them.
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Looks like a marketing bit to me ("look how we care about your privacy!"). I vaguely appreciate the sentiment but they've done that in a very annoying way.
If you'd bothered to read the banner, it answers your question: "Zero cookies, zero trackers, zero pixels."
Then it links to a page which is even more explicit about how little they collect: https://www.infohawk.com/cookies
If you think that’s bad, turn on the successor to x-do-not-stab. Many sites now show three popups: “we noticed the signal”, “optionally enter email to submit request”, “you clicked OK”, when zero popups would do.
I only clicked on the link after reading your comment. Yep, what that website is doing is obnoxious. A little less obnoxious than a cookie banner, but more obnoxious than not having any banner or modal.