Why does this website have a loading screen to process my cookie preferences?

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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

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Could you link the website?

It might help with diagnosing what happens, using the dev console

  • track what is sent / received when the button is clicked
  • see what third party service they are outsourcing to

https://www.roldgold.com/ I recognized the brand. I got that too. Also it asked me to download postform.jsp a 1kb file from consent-pref.trustarc.com

They're using a third party platform to do their cookie consent, you are just downloading it from that trust arc website. Which probably makes sense because they probably have most of their cookies coming from third party ad networks.