So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing
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So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing

A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with “848 of our partners” and “actively scan device details for identification”.

You don’t have OCR in your eyes 😮? Or do you use a screen reader, there must be screen readers that can OCR, tho, or are there none?

Accessibility standards require us to not put text in images. Its not hard to copy and paste the text.

What standards?

W3C is the big one that I know

But surely there’s others as well

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