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		luckylion on May 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, ... > I don't click every consent banner and you also shouldn't. And the regulation isn't for tech-savvy power users, it's for the general population. And they do click every consent banner.

hombre_fatal on May 6, 2020 [–]

Windows Vista's UAC modal was a good example of this.

Even the most tech-savvy HNer was clicking through those without any thought and soon turned auto-consent on (aka disabled UAC).

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