Can't even buy chicken in peace

“Optimal performance”

Yeah, this warning is pretty clear about that ironically. You aren't allowed to have secrets, only they are. It's pretty on the nose, but I guess it could be misunderstood. That's probably how it got there. The person told to create this wanted to give a warning, but they couldn't straight up say it.

They are tracking you so they can sell you more chicken. Remarketing.

Soda is a big money maker actually

And act like they’re doing youthe favor, to allow you to politely hand them your hard-earned peasant pennies.

They don't want some of the money. They want all of the money.

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

They probably aren't showing you ads. They are probably inserting trackers to tag you as a person, a purchaser, who likes chicken and is willing to pay for food, for delivery etc. the size of your order may hint at demographics, like family, kids. The address.gives useful data, the type of credit card. What kind of software and hardware loaded the site? Etc etc.

I interpret this as a pretty clear "you aren't allowed to have secrets" message. The only secrets allowed are theirs, not yours. They're going to track everything you do.

They deserve double money

That's optimal performance for “put your phone down and go to the restaurant yourself”, which makes more money for KFC.

I always said if I was ever given supreme executive authority, I would outlaw ads and then immediately step down. It would be my one move, and the world would be better for it.

We draw stock internationally via FedEx, with usually at least one shipment arriving per day.

If I have a particularly urgent order for my customer, I will of course be tracking the incoming shipment.

Every. Damn. Time. I visit their website, I get halted in my usual manic pace by their stupid, slow to load pop up. I haven't even been able to figure out how to block it, and usually don't have time when I'm working to figure these things out.

Our company gives you so much money, FedEx - why do you have to be so difficult to work with as thanks?!

Do you really want a bunch of people who don't know how the internet and general tech works, along with massive corporate interest, regulating ads?

Edit: I'm from the US where our law markers are generally old and/or incompetent.

The overworked tech dude didn’t have a single say on what went on there. That was the out of touch marketing team and project manager.

It's reverse upside-down inside-out psychology

They never said what performance they are optimizing, I'm pretty sure it's profit.

Well its not going to be on BK dot com.

why are you buying chicken on KFC dot com?

Delivery, most likely.

An irritating number of companies make it inconvenient to just view a menu, and want you to "Start your order!" to see prices and availability. I get that certain items are regional so entering a zip code makes sense, but if I just want to look at a menu and prices to see if I even want to do business with them I shouldn't have to create an account.

That said, for convenience purposes I'll occasionally order food online or over the phone so it's ready by the time I'm driving past on my way home and pick it up.

Despite the title, I was just trying to check the menu lol. 🥲

A username named "Reek" had one but it hasn't been updated in years

I just close these types of sites and do something different out of spite.

They're kinda telling on themselves, 'no secrets' what does watching an add have to do with secrets, unless they want you to have no secrets from them, and give you all a your data. Then that sentence makes sense. That sentence has some real twist / projection / gaslighty vibes. Why do corporations feel like my abusive ex.

Yeah they put ads on that little screen you use to pay. Also it never has any receipt paper loaded.

Probably telemetry, which most ad blockers also block. I think you meant kfc instead of pepsi

You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a "MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT". Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!

Maybe you should cook some food and deliver it to your local KFC - would that count?

No longer a secret: The recipe found by Joe Ledington reads as follows:

11 Spices – Mix with 2 cups white flour

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        2⁄3 t salt
    1⁄2 t thyme
    1⁄2 t basil
    1⁄3 t oregano
    1 t celery salt
    1 t black pepper
    1 t dry mustard
    4 t paprika
    2 t garlic salt
    1 t ground ginger
    3 t white pepper


  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC_Original_Recipe#Recipes or https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-are-kfcs-11-herbs-and-spices/

Please eat less fried foods, for your own health.

You are correct!

Chicken Grease Salt

Honestly I doubt they use anywhere near that many spices anymore.

Maybe your browser is blocking tracking or other cookies that adblockers also target.

The most common one I've seen on Google News uses DNS checking, too. If it can't resolve an ad domain, it assumes you're using an ad blocker.

Its finger licking good Disable your ad blocker

Don't bother trying it. It's gotten really bad over the years. The chickens have gotten smaller, and now they cut the normal 9 pieces of chicken in half in order to get more out of a chicken and provide extra mechanically separated meat for all the new sandwiches. There are much better fried chicken places around.

KFC in Japan is actually worse somehow

KFC in the UK is responsible for the only time I got chips (fries) while drunk on a night out that were so bad that I binned them

KFC in Canada is fucking atrocious. Aside from seeking out the worst staff possible, they have the worst quality food of any fast food places I've been to. Every 5 or so years I tend to forget just how bad it is, give them another chance, and something about the meal is inedible. Last time got a chicken sandwich and there was a chunk of the bun that was ultra hard and they forgot to put fucking fries in the bag, so I had a meal of a chicken patty of mostly batter and a mostly water diet Pepsi.

I've been in a kfc in Germany and was blown away how people actually eat that shit. But at the same time, people also enjoy McDonald's and burger king, so maybe it's just me

To add on to the list of countries, Singapore KFC is the only fast food franchise where you can occasionally find overcooked blackish terrible tasting chicken. Macs, Popeyes, Arnolds, BK, Jollibee, etc - not even once (yet).

In my opinion even the Seattle KFC is better.

I've had the pleasure (?) To eat KFC in the US and in Europe. Besides the fact that it was junk food either way, the European version was just so much better.

I can believe that in its distant origins, KFC was actually tasty, but right now I'd sooner enjoy being punched in the stomach than eating there (a similar statement is true by replacing KFC with McDonald's or Burger King or several other fast food chains, though for only these three I've tried both US and EU versions of these products)

KFC in Australia is pretty good. It's no Popeyes, but it's not bad.

I live in the USA now and while most KFCs I've been to here are pretty bad, there's one KFC near me that's strangely pretty decent. Chicken is always hot and fresh and they never make any mistakes with the order. I just wish they'd bring back the potato wedges since the fries are horrible.

The chicken sandwich at KFC is pretty decent too.

They're using firefox...

What? They're using firefox

If you mean the chicken, it's hardly an ad since I navigated to their site. 😆