What exactly moves? I'm looking at the banner at the top, and nothing moves when I hover over the "Define settings" or "Accept all" buttons, or any of the text links in the banner (in Chrome, Linux).

Edit: turns out it only swaps under some conditions, according to the prettied code here [1]. One of those conditions is having a touch screen, which my laptop does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753092

> I have a weakness for beautiful design

I take it to mean he's weak in this area. It's never cool to do stuff like this, unless it's a joke or a troll. I have he extension "I don't care about cookies" installed and he doesn't seem to know how to make it easy if we don't care about cookies.

The only cookies of this website are (and no local storage or anything):

cc_hide_prompt:"1", which is there for the cookie prompt itself to function, and:

cc_accepted_providers:"analytics,dummy_group_1", which doesn't contain any other info than that, no unique tracking codes

Why is this web developer even adding cookies at all here, given that there doesn't seem to be anything of value in them (unless the dummy group thing is valuable), and the prompt makes the website look worse?

EDIT: correction, when visiting the blog, more cookies appear

I think it's a glitch / unintentional. First, hover over the buttons. Then try widening your browser window from 800px to 1600px in chrome. Then back down to 800px. Do it slowly. You'll see that button position swap regardless whether you hover or not.

Also, it doesn't happen in smaller viewport.

Also, when I click the link for refuse-cookies, then reload the page, it doesn't show the banner again, meaning it remembered me despite disallowing the use of cookies.

Looking at the full cookie consent drop-down in a private browser, it shows a category "basic" cookies that you can't reject (even with the "reject" link, which it describes as being:

>Tools that enable essential services and features, including identity verification, service continuity, and site security; this option cannot be denied.

Hm ... it still feels like he uses a more expansive definition of "essential services" than I do. What if I don't even want him to remember anything about me, so he has to ask again? Don't I have the right to ask for that one cookie to be deleted that remembers this one consent?

I know, that would make the site even more annoying, but I do feel a tad confused -- can anyone comment on this?

There are so many delicious cookies in Germany, there's no reason not to accept them all (e.g. zimtsterne, Nürnberger lebkuchen, springerle, pfeffernuss, bethmännchen, aachener printen, ...)

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Funny enough he went through the trouble to make sure tabbing works, and that the bottom url indicator is readable. If you tab to "Define Settings" you can in fact disable analytics, and "Accept All" changes to "Accept".

> Your web browser (Chrome 90) is out of date. Update your browser so that this website can be made error-free and secure.

Erm. A browser released in April of this year is outdated?