The culprit: https://trustarc.com
Been noticing this provider getting used more frequently on other websites. Why are so many sites using this when it makes the user experience significantly worse?
And when it finally does process (which took about 40 seconds) you get this:
“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.”
So there’s no way to opt-out of all vendors… Am I being dumb or is this solution an utter failure in every regard.
Tracking companies selling ads: multiple trillion dollar corporate valuations, realtime activity and ML modelling, personally tailoring adds at an individual level, all within milliseconds
Tracking companies saving your opt out preferences: 👉👈 savings thwings is hawd mmmkay… Howd on while I save youw pwefewences, it’ll be 30 days untiw they appwy.