Feedback on a client-side, privacy-first PDF editor I built
pdffreeeditor.com
pdffreeeditor.com
You use a cookie CMP (Consent Management Platform - Google's?) that asks for permission for 122 vendors to harvest my personal information. There is no 'Reject all' button, and one has to tediously scroll through a potentially long list of pre-checked so-called 'legitimate' interests in order to reject all, a 'dark pattern' cookie harvesting, which goes against your 'privacy first' expressed goal.
If you just want the feedback from this community I suggest you remove any analytics from the site, there are likely many here that simply turn back when presented with this CMP.
The CMP is coming from AdSense, but you’re right that this clashes with the “privacy-first” positioning, especially without a clear reject-all option. That’s on me to fix.
I totally get your concern and for people turning away seeing this being transparent is what I want to do if they are uncomfortable sharing their preferences and cookies, then I am more uncomfortable stealing it in secret and using that for ads without their knowledge (which most of websites do).
Appreciate you calling it out.