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Google consent popups
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2020–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Google consent popups, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Accepting tracking is easy, but declining is not easy to do2022-01-30
- Must scroll to bottom three times before agreeing, with no idea what is agreed to2021-06-10
- Forces an instant decision with too much text and no opt-out without clicking More Options2020-07-27
- Unescapable privacy terms modal appears on every Google service's first visit in a fresh browser2020-06-26