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Original data reports from our own crawls and the consumer-protection docket. Free to read and cite — attribution to Public Vector is all we ask.

Data report
Consent Theater: 93% of Sites With Cookie Banners Start Tracking Before You Click Anything
Public Vector crawled 5,431 consumer sites with a browser that never touched a consent banner. 92.8% of banner-showing sites fired non-essential trackers anyway. Only 18% offered a visible reject button.

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