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?

Frito Lay Rold Gold pretzels website

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Excluding any dark pattern shenanigans from Frito Lay, the probable answer is that IT systems for large companies are a massive iceberg/rats nest.

    The website you see is probably half a dozen different systems wearing a trenchcoat - the news section is probably a different piece of software to the “our products” section and a different piece again to the “contact us”. It’s not inconceivable that this site might be pulling data from 4 different backends and pushing analytics and behaviour data to 10 different systems run by 4 different companies and actually genuinely have to spend a few seconds querying different places to figure out if you’ve opted out anywhere