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Unclear what data or tracking you're agreeing to
Raised by 6 people over 9 years (2018–2026), in 5 of them.
What people report
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The thing explicitly takes ~2-3mins to send a HTTP POST to each of their advertising partners saying you've opted out
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You are expected to read through a wall of text and follow complex instructions to manually opt-out of each vendor.
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having to opt-out of 100+ vendors individually definitely won't fly
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If I really want to read what the site says I laboriously click no to legitimate interest, though usually I just close the page.
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Principle
Clarity
People report jargon, legalese and vendor lists running into the hundreds or thousands, so they can't tell what data is shared, with whom, or what saying yes actually means.
More issues about mental models and mapping
A fix
Put a short plain-language summary in the first layer: what data is collected, for what purposes, which categories of recipients get it, and what stops working if the user rejects. Keep the full vendor list in a second layer.
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?