Cookie banners were supposed to protect your privacy. Instead they've made consent meaningless, wrecked UX, and blocked better regulation. Kate Klonick makes the case: BAN THEM! #Privacy #CookieBanners #TechPolicy isoclive.substack.com/p/ban-cookie...
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Screenshot of two paragraphs from the linked article: To translate the lost time into economic terms, we can assign a monetary value to the hours spent on cookie banners. With an average hourly wage in Europe of €25, the total economic cost can be calculated as 575,000,000 hours × €25/hour = €14.375 billion. Considering the EU Annual GDP (2024) of approximately €15 trillion, the economic cost of cookie banners represents: (€14.375 billion ÷ €15 trillion) × 100 ≈ 0.10% of total EU GDP. To grasp the scale of the productivity loss, we can consider the number of full-time employees (FTEs) that represent the lost hours. Assuming a full-time worker dedicates approximately 2,000 hours annually, 575,000,000 hours ÷ 2,000 hours/FTE = 287,500 FTEs. This means the overall cost of clicking on cookie banners is equivalent to a company of 287,500 employees spending an 8-hour workday clicking on cookie banners.
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