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by superhuzza 2799 days ago
Let's run through it:

1. Do you want to receive notifications: Business or marketing request

2. Your privacy/cookie warning: Likely legal requirement.

3. Age requirement: I'll assume it's an 18+ site, so requested by legal dept.

4. Subscribe to our newsletter: Marketing request

5. Disable adblock: Business request

6. Donate: Business request.

7. Did you find what you were looking for: UX request

8. Something went wrong: Engineering

2 comments

2. For the vast majority of sites, this is a Business request, since the cookies aren't necessary for operation. They're just for tracking. A login cookie being set would trigger the legal requirement, but a user with no account shouldn't even see the box.
> A login cookie being set would trigger the legal requirement,

Are you talking about the EU privacy and data protection directives? Because they have an exception for Authentication, Session and Security Cookies as well as several other types of cookies which are necessary for the function of the site.

A user that is logged in should not need to see this either.

> 1. Do you want to receive notifications: Business or marketing request

Alright, who actually told them that this was a thing they could do? Own up.