​The case for banning cookie banners 

​The case for banning cookie banners 

You almost certainly encounter cookie banners all the time. They’re the kind of low-level annoyance that just seems to come with being a person on the internet: a pop-up asking you to agree to share some kind of information, with someone, for some purpose. You could find out more, but you don’t. No one does. You just click “Accept” and move on.

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Are these banners sort of annoying, or are they something more? On this episode of The Vergecast, Kate Klonick, a professor at St. John …

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