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by JohnFen 1078 days ago
It may be effective (although I'm skeptical), but is the sort of manipulative bullshit that sends me running. Sites and applications that do this are very shady sites and applications.
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I get fed up waiting, even for a few seconds, and go to another site.

I wonder, are they tracking that? Doubtful.

Oh but they are. We three don't like it, but they have the data to back it up.
It doesn’t matter, Big Co. owns the other sites anyways.
You had better believe that companies with margins that thin are tracking absolutely everything, often regardless of what your answer to the GDPR popup is