On: IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in b...

[tomjen3]

As an EU citizen, what is the point of the consent forms? Are there really that many people who click accept?

[dmitriid → tomjen3]

When presented in a clear manner with Accept/Decline, the absolute vast majority of users will click decline.

So the leeches at IAB, OneTrust and everyone else employ a variety of dark patterns to make the user just click "Accept".

[Macha → tomjen3]

Yes, years of computer use have conditioned users to just click the box to make the dialog go away. Add to that the minimising language and "make our products better" language the form's presentation is couched in and the dark patterns to make opting out hard, I think most users accept.

[frankzander → tomjen3]

Yeah ... dark patterns - its always blue what you should click

[lrem → tomjen3]

Apart from everyone being trained to accept everything, some people genuinely enjoy the "share this" buttons and so on.