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1. i’m The Spinch, Baby! 4 min later

   @zachleat Oh that’s… that’s evil.

2. Thomas Michael Semmler 9 min later

   @zachleat had to fight a Head of Design once to prevent a similar thing. Just disgusting.

   1. Zach Leatherman 12 min later

      @nachtfunke the cookies look so appetizing though!

3. Rich Holman 16 min later

   @zachleat like why implement an illegal cookie consent popup. I just don’t get it. If they don’t care about the law then why even have the popup, fine break the law & accept the consequences (up to £500k fine), but this just illustrates exactly how they are breaking the law. Which is even more stupid.

   1. Šime Vidas 2 hr later

      @dogwonder @zachleat It’s not stupid if violators aren’t prosecuted.

      1. Rich Holman 5 hr later

         @simevidas @zachleat very good point. I had a bit of a look at the ICOs enforcement of PECR and yup. Looks like zero. Still genuinely glad I spent six months of my life correctly implementing GDPR and a compliant & accessible cookie banner for a global org though.

         https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/nuisance-calls-and-messages/

4. Ryan Geyer (he/him) 16 min later

   @zachleat "We care about [tracking and selling] your data"

5. Chris Ferdinandi 24 min later

   @zachleat I see this shit EVERYWHERE now....

   1. Dave Cross 🇨🇦 5 hr later

      @cferdinandi @zachleat Did they steal this idea from StackOverflow? I remember there was a small pinch of time where SO made it hard to reject all, before they thoughtfully added a “Reject all” button.

      But the SO one sticks around until you click a button too.

6. Chris Silverman 🌻 36 min later

   @zachleat Just going to share this here in case it's useful for anyone: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky Popups like that are the sort of nonsense I typically hide with something like Stylebot, but Kill Sticky is great if you just want to remove annoyances on a site you don't plan on returning to.

   I'll also say I have no problem naming and shaming sites that do this. The tactic is bad enough, but the smarmy "we're denying you a choice for your own good" language deserves to be punished.

   1. Tim 18 hr later

      @csilverman @zachleat useful for me - thanks!

7. Pedro MC Fernandes 2 hr later

   Humm... dark, burned cookies. Yum
8. hochitom 3 hr later

   @zachleat currently working on exactly the opposite: „We don‘t use any cookies at all. Click to close or wait a little until this message disappears“ 🥰

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @hochitom sometimes you gotta remind them how good they have it 😅