Banner covers much of the screen and hides content

Raised by 274 people over 15 years (2012–2026), in 13 of them.

What people report

2012-04
police: http://polisen.se/ who have this huge cookie dialog over the whole page
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2020-12
the entire article is blocked by a cookie wall on mobile that I have to click through before reading
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2022-06
whole screen has some grey overlay
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2023-12
half the screen is taken up by a cookie pop up and my only option to dismiss it is by accepting
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2026-10
cookie pop-up on mobile has thousands of pixels of empty vertical space so you have to scroll all the way down
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Principle

Aesthetic and minimalist design (Nielsen)

People report consent dialogs that fill half or all of the screen and cover headlines and navigation, especially on phones, leaving little room for the content they came to see.

More issues about minimalist design

A fix

Limit the first-layer banner to a compact bar, for example under a quarter of the viewport height on phones, placed so it never covers the headline or main navigation. Move detailed explanations and toggles behind a settings link.

Grouping, principle and fix drafted with Claude and reviewed by Justusability. Counts are people whose comment Claude labelled a usability complaint about this issue; see Method for how, and its limits. Something wrong here?

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