Wow... That TrustArc cookie preferences thing on their site sure is a piece of work. It takes 30+ seconds to completely load such that you can alter the prefere

Wow... That TrustArc cookie preferences thing on their site sure is a piece of work. It takes 30+ seconds to completely load such that you can alter the preferences (or you can click allow all immediately), and then after you change it to turn off advertizing cookies, it goes through a slow percentage calculation. I gave up after 3 minutes, when it was at 64%. It's quite obviously delaying as a dark pattern to make you give up and allow everything, but I wonder how legal that is? Update: I left it running to see what would happen. Once the artificial delay completes, you're presented with an ominous warning: "This page transmits information using https protocol. Some vendors cannot receive opt-out requests via https protocols so the processing of your opt-out request is incomplete. To complete the opt-out process, please click here to resubmit your preferences." Clicking on that link brings you to another page on their site that basically does the same thing, except with the following warning: "Some opt-outs may fail due to your browsers cookies settings. If you would like to set opt-out preferences using this tool you must allow third party cookies in your browser settings."" All preferences are of course set to "Yes". Changing them to "no" and submitting again does the same artificial delay with percentage that slows down the closer it gets to 100% (and then sticks at 100% for good measure). After this 5 minute process, it finally says my preferences have been saved, but with all these caveats, I wouldn't be surprised if it's tracking me anyway, using those warnings about browser settings as a fig leaf to hide behind.