Deceptive Patterns
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“Hey @StarbucksUK @TrustArc if you get rid of the unnecessary timeouts there won’t be any need for this processing “status”. This only happens when you customise your privacy settings, can you explain that Funny how some dark patterns are just accepted.”

Author
Chris Corbett
Date
11 Sept 2022

“@Starbucks @TrustArc proof that it doesn’t have to take almost a minute to set client side cookies. In the first run I’ve crippled the timeout, the second run is stock.”

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