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by legopelle 2936 days ago
Unrelated to the story, but I got this when (trying to) opting out of tracking: https://imgur.com/a/sw9wFY0

Besides opt out not really being ok, the processing took a good minute or two. As in the progress meter arbitrarily increased. That must be bullshit right? And after completion, the request to set preferences failed anyway!

Does anyone have an explanation?

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Wow, yeah I had the same experience. Looks like they do some network requests to 3rd parties (I guess to notify them as well of my consent preferences?). Total time took about 3 minutes, which ultimately resulted in a failed request.

Here's a video capture if anyone else can weigh in on this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3944v7137opknty/Kapture%202018-06-...