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How cycnical - an article further down (Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater) links to Forbes.com that indeed allows m
by PietdeVries 6y ago
How cycnical - an article further down (Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater) links to Forbes.com that indeed allows me to set my tracking preferences.However, anything other than 'accept' will result in a message stating 'we are processing the request <snip> this may take up to a few minutes'.
So they can set hundreds (yeah - that is right, I have seen pages tell me they wanted 500+ cookies to set, some of them to last 20 years) of cookies in a second or so, but will take minutes of me waiting for the page to show while they 'process my preferences'?!?
- ginko 6y agoAll that stuff is gone if you block javascript on forbes.com
- monadic2 6y agoI’m rather shocked they allow viewing content without it.
- rightbyte 6y agoProbably a bug.
- ShinTakuya 6y agoMore likely they know most users won't do it, and it probably aids in some SEO or something.
- Silhouette 6y agoThis is like the companies that mysteriously lack the ability to unsubscribe you from their mailing lists in less than 30 days, even though plenty of us manage to run systems that normally do it in real time.
- jtnjns 6y agoThere is an interesting Twitter thread about how this process worked in a UK bank, although their turnaround was about 4 days https://mobile.twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013 https://mobile.twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/115631296526570701...