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I actually implemented one of those. It's not as bad as the Google one, but still asymmetrical (accept is just a large button and reject is small, non-highlighted text next to it).

The customer in this case was rather non-technical and just wanted his tracking, so he wanted to have it like everyone else does. I/We actually told him very clearly that this is most likely illegal and talked it down a notch (from having "reject" hidden in the text), but he said he checked that with legal and we should do it. Loosing the customer over this was really not worth it (especially since this is basically the way cookie dialogs are done everywhere), so we did what he asked, with our asses covered in case it backfires. I might send him this case, though.

On a side note, it was really hard to implement the cookie dialog correctly so that it only loads Google Analytics and our tracking when ok is clicked. We thought this was a solved problem, but nope. Especially when you want to delete cookies when consent is revoked. I would not be surprised at all if most dialogs actually don't work at all.




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