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		djhworld on July 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An entomologist rates ant emojis I tried turning all the tracking/ads off but it just kept on redirecting me to their GDPR preferences screen every time I clicked submit.

fukuro on July 21, 2018 [–]

Intentional dark pattern or honest bug?

I have had this 'bug' on multiple different websites. Forbes in particular is a nice example, they take 5mins to save your preferences and then it says they "are working on it. You can change your preferences." (Not direct quote).

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