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Google consent prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Google consent prompts, 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 7 complaints
- Clicking the prominent 'Got it' button silently opts users into tracking2023-12-22
- Rejecting tracking cookies was hidden behind convoluted, confusing menus2022-04-24
- Must scroll through two pages before pressing any button2022-01-08
- Consent prompt pushes users to opt into tracking via dark patterns2020-10-19
- Popups use dark patterns that nudge users toward privacy-intrusive options2019-06-06
- Wall of text with scrollbar, unclear links, hard to see how to opt out2019-01-21
- Refuse option is hard to find, pushing users to accept tracking2019-01-21