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![9% Read Terms of Service in Full [2026 Data]](/_astro/what-percentage-of-people-read-terms-of-service.BFHrGVrV_Z292eMi.webp)
Only 9% of Americans read a terms of service agreement all the way through before accepting it, and 91% accept without reading, according to Deloitte's 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey of 2,000 US adults. See the breakdown by age, reading frequency, and how it compares to privacy policy reading rates.
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27% of US adults manually customize their cookie settings rather than accepting or rejecting everything, per a 2025 Pollfish survey commissioned by All About Cookies. See how the split breaks down, whether it actually stops tracking, and which browsers change the default for you.
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Websites set a median of 9 cookies per page load, per HTTP Archive's 2025 Web Almanac crawl of the top 1 million sites, while ShieldPage's March 2026 analysis of 5,000 sites puts the mean at 23 cookies before consent. See the industry breakdown, first-party versus third-party split, and consent-timing data for 2026.
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A privacy policy and a cookie policy cover different things and answer to different laws. Here's how to tell whether your site needs one document or two.
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92% of websites set at least one tracking cookie before showing any consent notice, according to a 2019 audit of 2,000 sites later corroborated by a 2024 study of 97,000 domains. See how many sites still track visitors after a reject click.
Read article![88.2% of Consent Banners Break GDPR Rules [2026]](/_astro/how-many-cookie-prompts-break-the-rules.CI8QumFq_B9k4J.webp)
88.2% of consent banners fail to meet minimum GDPR legal requirements, according to a CHI 2020 audit of the UK's top 10,000 websites by Nouwens et al. See the exact violations researchers found, a newer 97,000-site follow-up study, and what regulators are fining in 2026.
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