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Please nuke TrustArc from orbit, the one where it takes 2-3 minutes for it to "process your cookie preferences". But accepting all cookies is instant.

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Haha, this is hilarious in a very sad way. Can only imagine how the internal conversation about such an implementation went :).

My guess is that the same people that were complaining about multi-million dollar fines were the same ones that decided to adopt this blatantly violating "cookie solution"

Would be fun if all companies relying on this "cookie solution" sued back if they were found in non-compliance.

It's a dark pattern, and it's arguably illegal under the GDPR.

I'd scratch the arguably, seems to blatantly violate the pretty explicit text of the GDPR.

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