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Theoretically, you should have UX advantage by not showing annoying cookie pop-ups. The catch is, you are not allowed to share their data with 3rd parties, therefore if you like to have no cookie pop-up's you should respect your visitors privacy.

These cookie warnings are not compulsory or anything like that, what is compulsory is to inform the user and let them choose what information you are going to share with others about them.

My only guess is, those who operate the websites value the returns from data sharing more than the returns of a good user experience. They even engineer those pop-ups to be as annoying as possible to opt-out so that the users compel to share their data.




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