Common knowledge is expensive. Cookie warnings are a way to create public knowledge about the fact that there’s tracking.
More importantly, it seems to be an intended effect of the design and does not feel in the same reference class where a bunch of different stakeholders exist without any stakeholder being empowered to fix the problem.
My experience in talking to people is that ~nobody reads the cookie warnings. My perception is that this is an example of red tape intended to assuage people’s anxieties.
Cookie warnings in the EU, caused by the GDPR
Civilizational cost Fermi estimate
1 warning per day, which takes 2 seconds to close, with ~400 mio. people use the internet regularly, for the 4 years since GDPR was instituted
1 warningperson⋅day⋅2 unskilled labor secondswarning⋅1 unskilled labor hour3600 unskilled labor seconds⋅365 daysyear⋅4 years⋅4⋅108 persons≈3.25⋅108 unskilled labor hours
Which at 5€unskilled labor hour is ~1.6 bio. €
Can the benefit compare to this?
Common knowledge is expensive. Cookie warnings are a way to create public knowledge about the fact that there’s tracking.
More importantly, it seems to be an intended effect of the design and does not feel in the same reference class where a bunch of different stakeholders exist without any stakeholder being empowered to fix the problem.
My experience in talking to people is that ~nobody reads the cookie warnings. My perception is that this is an example of red tape intended to assuage people’s anxieties.