We Made the Most Annoying Cookie Banners Ever
We at Wasp just finished off a fun little hackathon where we asked our users to create the most annoying cookie consent banners they could think of (because cookie banners aren’t annoying enough already, right?). Then we let our community pick the winner in an elimination style tournament on X/Twitter.
It was a lot of fun, and the submissions were really creative, so we thought we’d highlight some of our favorites for you, including the community chosen winner. Check ‘em out below. We hope they inspire you… to… not use them on your own sites. :)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU’s data privacy law that requires websites to get explicit consent from users before collecting their data through cookies.
This submission by Cam Blackwood gets to the core of why cookie consent banners are annoying: they force users to make a decision about something they barely understand (or care about), based on a regulation they probably don’t even know exists.
Do you ever feel like cookie consent banners are UX design pattern from the past? Well, this submission by Lazi confirms that, by sending you through an operating system time machine to a past we’d all like to forget.
