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Yahoo consent prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2018–2020), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Yahoo 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
- Link bounces through ad domain and forced terms agreement before reaching article2020-05-07
- Consent wall appears every time user opens Yahoo links2020-05-06
- Cookie wall gives no way to decline, forcing acceptance to proceed2019-07-20
- Site is designed so people cannot access it without consenting to tracking2018-12-14
- GDPR consent choices are so hard to use that the commenter gives up on the sites2018-12-14
- Page content blocked until user accepts cookies, no option to refuse2018-06-11
- Declining third-party tracking is hidden behind a dark pattern with no toggle-all option2018-06-07