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“Processing preferences” for half a minute after opting out everything. That was a first 4 me (feddit.de)
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[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

One hundred percent this. Source, am lifelong engineer.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 8 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.

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