[airpoint]

> BBC Weather’s homepage is a content-rich page. Users have a reason to be looking at it and to be looking for an extended period of time.

Most of that rich content is obstructed by them bloody cookie warnings, on first visit. That’s not a very convincing simulation of “I’ve been looking at this page for the last 5 mins!”

[colanderman]

I often leave cookie popovers unclicked. Sometimes they take an annoying amount of work to decline cookies, and they can be used to cover video ads anyway.

[cwillu]

Hmm, I don't get a cookie banner on my browser, even in an incognito window with uBlock turned off.

[oneeyedpigeon]

I get one here in the UK, in incognito. It's actually one of the nicest cookie banners you'll ever see—just 75px tall at the top of the page, and it doesn't float so it disappears when you scroll. I recommend at least trying to see it, to appreciate its superiority over all the other cookie banners.

[robertlagrant]

I'd rather they just didn't track me.

[JacketPotato]

They're also used for stuff like storing which locations you search for, a pretty important feature. They probably also use them for analytics though.

[razakel]

They don't if you're in the UK.

[robertlagrant]

I'm in the UK and I get the analytics cookies notice.

[razakel]

Performance analytics isn't quite the same thing as "hoover up all your personal information" analytics.