I have never seen this before. Usually once I click my preferences the screen just goes away. What’s the difference between those websites and this one?
I’ve seen a website process literally over a thousand third-party cookies before, so maybe this one also just has that many to churn through
Yeah, but you can do this in the background without blocking the whole page. In fact you have to go to extra lengths to make it “block” the whole page. Maybe it’s just some css that sets the cursor to the “loading” image, and then ignores mouse clicks for a while, giving the illusion of doing lots of work…
Usually, your consent is a simple yes/no flag, no and saving that in a cookie is enough.
I have seen this “processing” before. My assumption was that it sets cookies on third parties websites instead of only the one you visit. The basis for that assumption being that some ad network and tracker websites have/offer “opt out cookies”.
I haven’t checked whether that’s actually the case.
There is no other reasonably valid explanation for it. Setting a few cookies doesn’t take that much time. It would then be either intentionally slow and lying to you, or has horrendous unacceptable implementation (which could be seen as unlikely given how obviously customer facing it is).
