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Post by mangetout on Nov 3, 2022 10:49:10 GMT 1
Everytime I look at anything, in fact after almost every key stroke, I am asked to agree to the site privacy policy. I say yes every time but it goes on?
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exile
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Post by exile on Nov 3, 2022 11:48:23 GMT 1
The "privacy policy" usually allows them to download cookies onto your computer. It is an EU requirement that you be allowed to reject the download for all but those that allow the site to work.
I have put privacy policy in inverted commas since in many (but not all) cases if you accept the policy, the cookies will track where else you visit on the internet and may even track where your device is (and hence where you are). Companies then use this to target advertising. So if you go onto say Amazon and look at fridges, you are likely to be bombarded with pop-ups (unless blocked) for fridges and emails from companies such as Darty and Boulanger- to name just a couple.
So firstly, you keep getting the requests because it is EU law that you be allowed to opt out of things that can be anything but protecting your privacy. Secondly, by agreeing, you are opening the doors for others to collect data about you and then specifically target you for your hard earned readies to be spent with them. Thirdly, if you regularly delete cookies, even if you reject all but essential ones, sites will no longer know that you have been asked about the privacy policy and will ask again. Most of the essential cookies will leave a marker so that next time you visit a site it knows how you have answered the policy question. Fourthly, when sites get updated, the cookie markers can change so you the site no longer knows you have answered the questions and shown preferences. It will then ask again.
From what I have written you will surmise that I try and avoid allowing cookies from being downloaded except for those that allow a site to run.
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Post by mangetout on Nov 3, 2022 14:30:24 GMT 1
ut I say yes and it still comes back.
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Post by specsavers2 on Nov 3, 2022 15:07:09 GMT 1
Ongoing process where I do try and give minimum personal details. Do at times just click of the site because they can be very awkward to reject their attempts.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Nov 3, 2022 15:15:02 GMT 1
ut I say yes and it still comes back. Which site are you having problems on, if it's ok to ask ?
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 3, 2022 15:20:59 GMT 1
Oh oh oh don't get me started on bloody cookie policy. I.T. Incompetence at its worst. They either don't work, won't let you in if you do not agree or keep popping up. Sad.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 3, 2022 17:44:28 GMT 1
A fortune to be made by the first coding nerd who invents software to automatically deal with the troublesome burning hoops on your behalf.
In the same vein, a properly "smart" smart TV should have a setting that will automatically mute the commercials or at the very least reduce the volume to somewhere near that of the program you are watching.
Fat chance.
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Nov 16, 2022 11:20:16 GMT 1
Oh oh oh don't get me started on bloody cookie policy. I.T. Incompetence at its worst. They either don't work, won't let you in if you do not agree or keep popping up. Sad. I usually just give it up as a bad job if I can’t get in easily.
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Post by houpla on Nov 16, 2022 11:39:03 GMT 1
There are quite a few sites, mostly to do with the Press, who must be haemorrhaging potential clicks and customers by coming over all arsey if you decline the non-essential cookies. A lot of cookery sites, for a start. They've got the damned cheek to insist on accepting or paying an abonnement. It is wearing, though, having to go through the rigmarole on each and every site visited.
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Nov 16, 2022 11:50:12 GMT 1
I would suggest lying down and relaxing.
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 16, 2022 13:17:24 GMT 1
I bet that's what you say to all the girls.
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Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Nov 16, 2022 14:33:51 GMT 1
A fortune to be made by the first coding nerd who invents software to automatically deal with the troublesome burning hoops on your behalf. In the same vein, a properly "smart" smart TV should have a setting that will automatically mute the commercials or at the very least reduce the volume to somewhere near that of the program you are watching. Fat chance. Rather like two games of Scrabble being identical. or a monkey with a keyboard reproducing the complete works of Shakespeare, or a horse that I backed getting around the track.
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