[michaelt]

I'm pretty sure 95% of business types and developers visit their own websites with a load of cookies already set, so they never actually see the first-time-customer experience.

If someone has searched for gloves on Google, and clicked through to my glove selling website, they're clearly ready to buy some gloves. Why the hell would I put a full screen cookie consent popover in their way? Or a join-our-mailing-list popover? Or require them to complete a captcha to create an account before they can check out? This person wants to give me money, why would I put barriers up in their way?

And yet quite a few sites do precisely those sort of things.

But if everyone dogfooding the site arrives with cookies that hide the popovers, and an account already created - I could believe they just don't realise how bad their website is.

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More likely that many (most?) employees don’t care about directly harming the company they work for if they can score points for themselves or their departments in the corporate version of game of thrones.

Similar to how in a two party system, politicians will often prefer to lose elections to the other party, rather than lose control inside their own party.

It only looks self-destructive from the outside.. inside a sufficiently large bureaucracy me/us/them all get muddled