Is anyone else confused by thier cookie consent banner? The switches start out gray and become black when toggled. which position means consent? It feels intentionally misleading.

This is how you get statutory warning labels and nutrtion information labels on packages.

Because these folks always want to do the least legal thing allowed by law.

> The switches start out gray and become black when toggled.

Rant: That type of slider-switch is an inferior usurper of the classic tickbox, that rode in on a wave of touch-screen-ification. Oh, it can be done well, sometimes, but it's just far too easy to do it badly.

In this case (useless colors, not other labels) I think the implicit rule/clue is "Move the dot-nub towards what you want." Therefore moving right is indicating you like the "I'm gonna do X to you" text-line, and moving left indicates you don't.

> It feels intentionally misleading.

I think the "Accept All" button is worse and more-malicious:

1. It abuses conventions of color and positioning to trick you into thinking it means "continue with what the screen already shows".

2. Its phrasing exploits the ambiguity between "Accept the on-screen package of choices you've specified" versus "Erase your choices and set every individual choice to Enabled."

3. When it activates, it does so secretly. You don't see how it erases your choices and moves every sliders to the right, it just vanishes the dialog and hopes you won't realize what happened.