Thanks Komonews for going with this shitty tactic ( lemmy.world )

neuracnu , 10 months ago

Note the logo on the status window there: TrustArc.

A little searching for that company shows that this dark pattern is effectively a feature of their service. Twitter user “pixelscript” dug into their javascript a bit to find the cause of the delay. It turns out that, as you may have guessed, this isn’t any kind of asynchronous callback pause waiting on the remote server to do something. It’s just a self-imposed client side delay; because they feel like making you wait.

Original post: twitter.com/pixelscript/status/…/1

Screenshot (from Starbucks’ implementation) https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9681fde3-619a-410c-a33b-a2a961dff2c2.jpeg

Moral of the story: do not patronize businesses with hostile relationships with their customers.

Urbanfox , 10 months ago

TrustArc is website cancer.

Accept and they’re gone in an instant, reject and they make it fucking annoying…

I reviewed them as part of an RFP exercise to implement a cookie tool, and was shocked at their practices.