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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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“Processing preferences” for half a minute after opting out everything. That was a first 4 me (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One hundred percent this. Source, am lifelong engineer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If it were a really major site I’d say it’s polling an event log for confirmation from all the other subscribing services that they’ve processed the removal request.

But this is some local TV station’s website so that doesn’t make sense unless they’ve massively over engineered it.