When you mix cookie warnings with civil servants:

Don’t get me wrong. The UK’s Companies House website is a clean, fast, and well-organised website. However, it suffers from a particularly bad example of cookie officiousness.

Say you want to research a company, and you head along to their website.

Click once in your Google results to open their page:

Click twice to “Accept additional cookies“; then:

Click three times to “Hide this message“:

Then click for a fourth time to start doing what you originally came to the site to do:

Then, click for a fifth time to “Accept analytics cookies“:

Then, click for a sixth time, to “Hide this message“:

I’m used to it, by now. But still.