I have never seen this before. Usually once I click my preferences the screen just goes away. What’s the difference between those websites and this one?
I would suspect this is an intentional dark pattern. They’re probably hoping most people will get tired of waiting and click cancel, which sets it back to the default of allowing all cookies.
That’s it imo. “a few minutes” to process is silly. That cancel button is huge too.
I’m willing to bet canceling will be instant too
Well that’s disturbing but not surprising
I personally use consent-o-matic and never even see these popups anymore
It’s to let you know you should install an extension on your browser that adds a small “block this site” button to your search results
Usually, your consent is a simple yes/no flag, no and saving that in a cookie is enough.
I have seen this “processing” before. My assumption was that it sets cookies on third parties websites instead of only the one you visit. The basis for that assumption being that some ad network and tracker websites have/offer “opt out cookies”.
I haven’t checked whether that’s actually the case.
There is no other reasonably valid explanation for it. Setting a few cookies doesn’t take that much time. It would then be either intentionally slow and lying to you, or has horrendous unacceptable implementation (which could be seen as unlikely given how obviously customer facing it is).
Notice the prominent cancel button? Is 100% designed to waste your time.
