What one click agrees to
10,302companies
That is the total named by the consent dialogs on this wall, added up. Each one asks for a single press. 90 sites were visited, 25 carried something measurable, and 36 findings came out of it — 10 where declining costs money and 7 where the first screen offers no way to decline at all.
Nothing here says what any of these companies meant to do. Every line is a measurement taken off the live page in the same visit that produced the picture beside it. Captured 2026-09-11.
Consent or pay10
theguardian.com€5 per monthCost to decline, as offered here
mirror.co.uk£1.99 per monthCost to decline, as offered here
express.co.uk£1.99 per monthCost to decline, as offered here
dailymail.co.uka paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
standard.co.uk£3.49 per monthCost to decline, as offered here
lemonde.fra paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
repubblica.ita paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
elpais.coma paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
corriere.ita paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
zeit.dea paid subscriptionCost to decline, as offered here
The size of the yes14
- theguardian.com139Companies named by the dialog
- mirror.co.uk1,746Companies named by the dialog
- express.co.uk1,746Companies named by the dialog
- dailymail.co.uk1,348Companies named by the dialog
- standard.co.uk142Companies named by the dialog
- elpais.com1,028Companies named by the dialog
telegraaf.nl165Companies named by the dialog
dn.se145Companies named by the dialog
ticketmaster.co.uk128Companies named by the dialog
thetrainline.com115Companies named by the dialog
wetransfer.com670Companies named by the dialog
speedtest.net1,022Companies named by the dialog- zeit.de172Companies named by the dialog
nastygal.com1,736Companies named by the dialog
No decline offered7
Ticked on arrival1
Bundled into a button1
Unequal controls1
Scarcity1
Switched on already1
How this was counted
A script opened 90 sites in a clean browser profile and measured what it found: which controls a consent dialog offers, how they are drawn, how many companies it names, which switches are already on. A clean profile matters, because most of these dialogs appear only on a first visit.
It never pressed Accept, Agree or Subscribe anywhere. The only presses were the ones that open a settings panel or close a promotional overlay with its own close control. Neither grants anything.
Every sentence on every exhibit is a template filled with those measurements. No model wrote any of it. That is what keeps 36 exhibits as honest as six were: a template can only say what was measured.
The detectors were wrong several times before they were right. An early pass flagged ten sites for shaming language and every one was a news headline the pattern had matched inside a French or German word. Another read a hotel occupancy selector as a scarcity claim on every result.
There is no form on this site and there never will be. A wall anyone can add to needs somebody checking every entry against the live page, and an unchecked accusation about a named company is the thing this page exists to avoid. Every exhibit here was looked at against its own screenshot before it shipped; that pass corrected twelve of them.
Consent dialogs vary by country and change often. These are what one browser saw from Switzerland on 2026-09-11. If one looks different to you, it probably is — every exhibit links to the live page.