Might be cool, won't know, because of that full page "we are tracking you, do you consent, or do you want to go through a click adventure that'll probably take half an hour before we pretend that analytics and tracking cookies are essential site functionality and we refuse to give you the option to turn those off" notice.
If you can't write your site code to do the right thing when DNT is turned on and without needing sessions to serve restful data, your site isn't done, and your code has bugs that need fixing.
These sorts of comments always ignore the bidirectional relationship between websites and web users. They don’t owe you anything, you’re just another customer with a choice to make.
Yes, that's implicit to the complaint: "too much tracking and profiling being requested: won't use." And then you post a comment letting others know, in the hopes that they do better on their own websites because they see people voice the fact that they'll bounce on unreasonable tracking modals.
They don't owe me anything, I don't owe them anything, and when someone with whom we have no debt relationship one way or the other goes "give me your personal data or I won't show you anything, not even a preview to justify handing over your data" should be called out as making an unreasonable request before, as you suggest, moving on.
I suppose I could understand this complaint more if this was an unusual sight to behold, but surely you see this pattern a million times a day like the rest of society?
I guess it just seems like it's a little overly pedantic, like those people that insist every intersection be replaced with a roundabout because it's more efficient for traffic. It misses the point.
I think the law requiring websites to show the stupid things at every turn was a bad one. It should have been required of browsers to come up with some kind of one-time-per-user configuration standard of data collection and just be done with it. To me, that's better to do it once or twice per computer or whatever the case is, than with every little single-purpose website that someone browses to.
Anyhow, I misread your original complaint anyways, I should've read more carefully before typing. That's my mistake.
No, I don't? And I doubt "the rest of society" does either?
(Most sites that show a consent banner tend to still "just work" even if you don't click any of the buttons - which is a fine way to comply with an idiotic law. They don't throw up a full page "give us your data before we show you anything" =)
If you can't write your site code to do the right thing when DNT is turned on and without needing sessions to serve restful data, your site isn't done, and your code has bugs that need fixing.