Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism
Around the time the whole cookie banner thing started, Forbes had this particular one that acted like turning off nonessential cookies was this whole convoluted process that required waiting and processing something. There'd be a progress bar stating "please wait, processing your request".<p>Looking at the JavaScript, it was a setTimeout() for quite a long time.<p>I knew exactly what kind of company Forbes was after that.