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We use a third party cookie consent service. It shows different things depending on your location (and allows disabling different types of cookies depending on your local laws). Lawyers mandate it. It's easier than having to figure out the laws everywhere on our own. To me it shows a banner that stays out of the way. But I couldn't tell you for sure it doesn't cover the whole page to other people.

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Have you considered just not violating anyone's privacy?

Cookie banners aren't a force of nature. They are required solely because you want to track people. Not tracking people? No need for a cookie banner!

Unfortunately you need cookies for any good user analytics; and no, I don’t mean the invasive kind that Marketing put in - I mean the kind which allows you to figure out why your site is broken.

Which ironically are the same tools you’d need to find out if your users are experiencing unintentional dickovers.

You don't need tracking cookies to log RED metrics.

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