James Smith 💾Ooh, here’s a new dark pattern I’ve not seen before. Decline cookies and you get a spinner saying it may take a few minutes to set your prefs, with a large cancel button. Utter bullshit.
Craig@Floppy I've noted that one for years. At one point it was common to sites owned by a large media chain, the name of which escapes me. That variant even gave you an estimated time of around 2 minutes; I presume that crashing the process was considered a tacit acceptance,