[sublinear]

> Companies know they don't need those pop-ups. They are putting them there to anger you and demand for things to go back.

You're giving these companies much more credit than they deserve. They're just going through the motions in an attempt to avoid lawsuits, but clearly not even Google can get it right 100%.

Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

[slotrans]

Yeah, it's this.

Having worked for a number of companies implementing these measures, there's no malicious intent, they are rolling their eyes the whole time. It's just a box they need to tick. Everyone wishes it would just go away.

[pcan77]

incorrect; they are demanding that you download their app. "See! Our mobile experience isn't good, you need the app!!"

[saiya-jin]

Who the heck downloads apps these days for every stupid thing? I mean apart from clueless grannies who would gladly send some money to that poor Nigerian prince over and over again.

I've stopped quite some time ago, basically my collection of apps is set in stone once I configure a new phone. If something seismic happens in real world I may add app in average rate 1 app/year, and that's about it.

Not using apps is so cool, some crappy webs that don't support mobile firefox with ublock origin don't even get my time, the rest is well curated. Due to reasons behind I am more than fine clicking on consent popups, the way they are designed to get to reject consent dialog tells you outright how moral/amoral business is behind it. So this is actually time-saving feature.

The thing is, life is short. No, its darn short, ask any old person. Definitely too short to waste too much of it on regretful things like phones.

See, everybody (who matters) wins.

[sublinear]

That's not even related to GDPR, and doesn't mean their webpage sucks. It means they want to push the app.

Marketing is a funnel. People who bother to download the app are heavier users of the site. Finding those users is the point.