They’re lying. They are such awful people that they forced some engineer to make a fake progress tracker, and introduce a timeout to the script to waste your time for opting out. My guess is that they’re hoping next time they “forget” your preferences and present you with the same choice, you’ll decide not to waste time with the opt out and just accept everything. Scumbag managers.
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.
They’re lying. They are such awful people that they forced some engineer to make a fake progress tracker, and introduce a timeout to the script to waste your time for opting out. My guess is that they’re hoping next time they “forget” your preferences and present you with the same choice, you’ll decide not to waste time with the opt out and just accept everything. Scumbag managers.
One hundred percent this. Source, am lifelong engineer.
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.