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Inscrutable cookie banners torment users while failing to inform consent.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 65, Issue 7
      July 2022
      85 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3544941
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      • James Larus
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