This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
Works as intended.
The enshittification continues.
No it didn't, he waited the entire length of 30 seconds. They need to crank that up to 30 minutes!
"Opt out please"
NO OPT OUT, FUCK YOU!
"We will notify you by letter when your request to block cookies has gone through and been validated by our manager"
Please enter your name and shipping address so we can send you the opt-out letter receipt.
*you address may be sold to information brokers.
Be realistic. They would just go full gym membership level.
Opt in, single click instant.
Opt out, signed certified hand-delivered notarised letter requesting opt out. Please allow 260 working days to process.
They're lying. They are such awful people that they forced some engineer to make a fake progress tracker, and introduce a timeout to the script to waste your time for opting out. My guess is that they're hoping next time they "forget" your preferences and present you with the same choice, you'll decide not to waste time with the opt out and just accept everything. Scumbag managers.
One hundred percent this. Source, am lifelong engineer.
If it were a really major site I’d say it’s polling an event log for confirmation from all the other subscribing services that they’ve processed the removal request.
But this is some local TV station’s website so that doesn’t make sense unless they’ve massively over engineered it.
I don't think they're allowed to do these fake loading screens in the EU
PS: in the settings of uBlock Origin, you can select a cookie banner blocker. This gets rid of 99.99% of cookie banners ✨ (there're also options against newsletter boxes).
9 of 10 hacker kittens recommend this 🌸😸
Android, Firefox, uBlock Origin. You can pick elements and block them just like you can on the desktop.
Oh yeah those cookie prompts are like mini-games to access the content. Some on them, you can't even win!
"Accept all" or "Click away to a totally different page, select a bunch of items, confirm. Get directed to the homepage which is not where you wanted to be."
Back button
In the EU you can just block those popups, they waste so much time and are opt-in by law. Not in the wild west though...
If you block them in America it's illegal probably
It's not.