The NOS (Dutch national news agency/company) was criticized recently because the cookie/tracking consent thing was 'too much/inconvenient'.

Seriously, their consent thing exists out of three yes-no buttons (one for each subject and the subjects have a very short but understandable description) which you can click or tap (it works perfectly on mobile) within a fucking second.

It's the best fucking consent thing I've seen and now they're saying it's inconvenient.

Inconvenient my ass, other companies should take it as example! (https://nos.nl)

While it is pretty inconvenient, it's also transparent as fuck, so it makes up for it.

It's all in the eyes of the user. For some, aka the masses, that don't give a shit, this is inconvenient. Whereas you, the most security and privacy conscious person I'll probably ever meet, you're willing to spend the time.

It's genuinely just an opinion based situation with no right or wrong answer.

@Stuxnet I mean more like,, a lot of those sites have like 10 different checkboxes or sliders etc and this one just has there sets of buttons which show right away what they're for, in comparison to most other sites I find that very convenient.

@linuxxx I dont think I've ever experienced one like you're describing. If you don't mind and know one off the top of your head, can you give me an example of it?

Leave it up to the average user to be dumb.

@Stuxnet The easy or difficult one? (for both, I visit so many sites that I don't keep track...)

@linuxxx I looked at NOS and I only got one yes/no box.

But the difficult one you described is one I've never seen

I just hope this will one day be fixed by the browser you use. In my case i set firefox to delete cookies after each session. But i'd like it to be after i close each tab.

@resdac Theres an addon for that!

GDPR consent should have been implemented as a browser client protocol.

If they had just written the law as "webbrowsers should implement a feature which enables users fine grained control over cookie placement, either defaulting to blocking or asking the user"... They could have just bundled a privacy badger like extension.

If all websites must implement it, why all the code duplication, why make all these ambiguous JavaScript sticky footers, why not just make it part of how browsers serve webpages?

ok so after I opened the page I have to admit, the banner about the cookies is a bit irritating/overwhelming/confusing? ... maybe overwhelming would be the nearest description.
I see myself as someone between the average user and linuxxx, I'm (by far) not as smart as linuxxx when it comes to privacy and GDPR stuff but on the other hand I'm also not the typical average user.
So my point of view here is that, as the user just wants to get things done, meaning reading the articles, the cookie part might either be simply not perfectly designed from alignment/placement/color/etc., as I was a bit overwhelmed by the content, or just a bit too much content, explaining "everything".
That might be an explanation for the critique 🤷‍♂

@cb219 Take a look at https://telegraaf.nl, one button, yes but it's also about the content you could read through (also a dutch news site)

@linuxxx holy shit 😂
one just sees a wall of text and then a green button above ... i was like "no way i'm gonna read all of that 😦 (i don't speak dutch by the way), well then, click the green button 😅 "
kind of interesting how my brain works and says "holy hell that block! ok restart by reading from the top, read the title ... oh there's a green button, i'll click it so i don't have to care about this text"
in my opinion there might be little design faults, as this prompt is a bit uncomfortable to look at 😅

@cb219 This is how a lot of sites over here are but most are worse, in comparison to that I find the nos one very good ;)

agree, in this case nos is a bit better but still the attention first goes to the buttons section and the text which doesn't seem to really fit next to it, then there's suddenly another section with text ... so what should one look at? it needs some time to understand
nevertheless my condolences for these websites 😅