[wengo314]

i got even better one.

do you accept your cookie policy ? [ yes | no, customize ]

and after you go through all that :

big green button [ continue with recommended settings ]

smaller gray one [ save my choices ]

guess what the green one does.

[BoxOfRain]

Or the equally obnoxious 'pressing consent is instant, pressing don't consent takes 5+ seconds to process'. This one is plausibly deniable too.

[stanmancan]

What about when you remove yourself from a mailing list. and they inform you it will take 10 business days to take effect?

[fsflover]

> This one is plausibly deniable too.

How can it be? You do nothing for 5+ seconds or you save a ton of cookies instantly.

[BoxOfRain]

I think if it was in a court of law it'd be quite difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it's malicious unless it was literally something as obvious as `Thread.sleep(5000)` rather than the software just being badly written. I managed to introduce a really annoying and very specific timing issue a few weeks ago completely by accident for example, I reckon the accused would just say 'non-consent is processed differently to consent for $legacy_cruft reasons and it's quite slow, we're incompetent but we're not malicious'.