Explained: Cookie Consent

You land on a news site to read one article. Before you can see a single word of it, a banner fills half the screen. "We value your privacy." There are three buttons: Accept All, Manage Preferences, and something like "Continue without accepting" that's grey and tiny and hard to find. You click Accept All because you just want to read the article. This happens roughly a dozen times a day for most people using the web. Most… Read More