Cookie banners · Reviewed
Content blocked until cookies are accepted
Raised by 10 people over 9 years (2018–2026), in 6 of them.
What people report
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For me it works only after enabling JS and disabling adblocking, but the contents is appalling
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sites that seem to break in weird ways, until I temporarily disable my ad blocker to agree/reject cookies, then it works again
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If you can't scroll, you can usually permanently block the overlay
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The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin.
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scrolling issues are often caused by adblockers hiding cookie prompts, that need to be accepted to interact with the webpage
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Principle
User control and freedom (Nielsen)
People report that articles, videos and whole sites stay hidden or scroll-locked until they accept, sometimes redirecting back to the prompt, so they can't read, postpone the decision or leave on their own terms.
More issues about user control and freedom
A fix
Load the page content and keep scrolling enabled while the consent choice is shown as a non-blocking banner. Until the user answers, treat the absence of a choice as no non-essential cookies.
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?