2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
@jk followed by a modal overlay for cookie “approval” approximately 500ms after you have started navigating the content…🤪
@clanger9 @jk You have to uncheck each single one of the 3753 "partners" if you want an illusion of privacy