Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.
According to a new piece of analysis at least.
The research piece also claims that clicking on cookie banners costs around 14.375 billion Euros in lost productivity.
Is privacy worth the price?
There is no bundling, functional cookies don’t even need consent, sites can just use them without asking (some sites still give a heads-up though). Any site asking for permission for cookies is using them to track you and most likely sell your information.
Or maybe it should only be opt in to cookies, and no bundling them with nonfunctional ones.
There is no bundling, functional cookies don’t even need consent, sites can just use them without asking (some sites still give a heads-up though). Any site asking for permission for cookies is using them to track you and most likely sell your information.
There are some third party cookies that facilitate additional functionality like integration with other services that people might want to opt in to.