Cookie banners · Reviewed
Must answer a consent prompt separately on every site
Raised by 16 people over 17 years (2010–2026), in 8 of them.
What people report
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sites that pop something up when you mouseover a link
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As a user, I need to click yes on so many sites it's unreal.
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All it does is train users to click yes without thinking about it because they just want to get on with their life.
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those annoying "Yes I accept your damn cookies and privacy policy" on every website I visit
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When you have to ask the user permission to do anything and everything, the user gets annoyed and desensitized.
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Principle
Flexibility and efficiency of use (Nielsen)
People report having to make the same consent decision on nearly every site they visit, with no way to set a preference once and have it applied.
More issues about flexibility and efficiency of use
A fix
Read browser-level privacy signals such as Global Privacy Control and apply them automatically, skipping the banner when a signal is present. Show the prompt only to visitors without a signal or a stored choice.
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?