Alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Brave Search don't have cookie banners. Google is far more widespread, but just because Google does something, that doesn't mean it isn't wrong. I will give Google credit for their consent dialog which has a "Reject All" option, (seemingly, from a UI perspective) in full compliance with GDPR.
The websites needing cookie banners or GDPR consent dialogs are using personal data for serving ads or selling it to the highest bidder. It's not a sentiment, but a fact visible to anyone that cares to see it. And just because it's a widespread practice doesn't make it ok.
>And just because it's a widespread practice doesn't make it ok.
You're missing the point. The fact that nearly every website you visit displays the banner means that users become desensitized to it. It's just one more thing for them to click on, next to the dialog to permit notifications and whatever else. It's the same reason developers are encouraged to solve warnings, so that when a new one props up they will notice it quickly and decide if its a problem or not; if you normally get hundreds of warnings when building you quickly learn to ignore them, hiding any problems that might exist.
Desensitised? I think not. Every time I see one of these utterly pointless cookie pop-ups it enrages me further that my time (and everyone else's time) has been so thoroughly wasted by this pointless law which accomplishes precisely nothing.
And it's different from the crying wolf of leaving unfixed warnings. The cookie pop-up often cannot be ignored as it requires some action to dismiss in order to view the actual content that the user was looking for in the first place.
Yes, because you're not thinking about the site asking for permission to track you (which was the original intent of the law), you're annoyed about your time being wasted. Which, I agree, is a total waste of time, but it doesn't counter my point that it desensitizes you to the signal the GDPR was meant to enhance.
>The cookie pop-up often cannot be ignored as it requires some action to dismiss in order to view the actual content that the user was looking for in the first place.
The user often cannot ignore the dialog in the sense that they cannot avoid interacting with it, but eventually they ignore it in the sense that they learn to automatically dismiss it without even thinking about it, like EULAs in software installers. Thus the dialogs become pointless.
The websites needing cookie banners or GDPR consent dialogs are using personal data for serving ads or selling it to the highest bidder. It's not a sentiment, but a fact visible to anyone that cares to see it. And just because it's a widespread practice doesn't make it ok.