[PietdeVries]

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'?!?

[Silhouette]

This 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]

There 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/115631296526570701...

[ginko]

All that stuff is gone if you block javascript on forbes.com

[monadic2]

I’m rather shocked they allow viewing content without it.

[rightbyte]

Probably a bug.

[ShinTakuya]

More likely they know most users won't do it, and it probably aids in some SEO or something.