Komonews now apparently does this crap where it needs to “process” your cookie opt-out, at least on mobile.

Any alternative news sources you’d recommend to follow? Just for stuff like weather or big events.

If you’re unfamiliar with this tactic, when you click “opt-out” the webpage basically displays this widget with a loading bar saying it needs to “process” your request. When in reality you’re asking them to simply not use cookies, so it’s saving the web browser time by not installing any cookies.

  • Flabbelgnarpf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Pretty sure this is actually fraud. Trying to trick someone into abandon their rights by lying ist fraud right?

    • poop@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      This is America and KOMO/Sinclair is an American company, serving American users. What “rights” do you think you are being tricked out of? You don’t have a right to not be tracked.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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: https://twitter.com/pixelscript/status/1436664488913215490/photo/1

    Screenshot (from Starbucks’ implementation)

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