Personal Data.

yes I deny legitimate interests and the biggest task is in the 'Vendors' section.
It doesn't seem to matter whether I close my browser of not...i can leave the tab open but if i go back to it i need to log in again.
I thought that not logging out on my iPad would mean that i did not get these irritating requests, but it seems that since the change of server i am logged out automatically.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
yes I deny legitimate interests and the biggest task is in the 'Vendors' section.
It doesn't seem to matter whether I close my browser of not...i can leave the tab open but if i go back to it i need to log in again.
I thought that not logging out on my iPad would mean that i did not get these irritating requests, but it seems that since the change of server i am logged out automatically.

All this leaves me in absolute bewilderment.
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Taddy it is just a bleeding imbuggerance.
I just wonder if these companies who harvest our details, make it that way so that we will click on ‘Accept All’.
 
Of course they want you to accept all, but they also have to give you a way of not accepting all their buscuits, so they just make it as hard as possible not to accept them. You can blame the EU mostly for this. A lot of websites, at least EU/UK based ones give you the option to only accept necessary cookies and reject none essential ones and that info should be permanent. I think the forum software on Accy web uses 3rd party ads and therefore also biscuits, sorry cookies....
 
You do need to understand how the internet works, the internet is a none persistent state, which means that anytime you visit a website it treats you like that's the first time you've ever visited. Hence biscuits, sorry cookies, came about to help websites know if you've visited before and therefore remember you are.

Alas cookies were exploited, so they weren't just tracking you on one website but across multiple sites. Hence the ICO got involved ( ICO = Information Commissioner's Office) and then we had the EU implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Which has a clause that all websites need to tell you about what biscuits, sorry cookies, they are collecting, how they are using them and also give you the option to deny. Most websites are implementing this wrongly, a website cannot say by using this website you consent to having cookies.

The new law says unless you consent, and consent cannot be implied by using a website, no cookies (unless they necessary for the running of the site) can be placed on your computer.

In order for a website to remember that you said no to biscuits, sorry cookies, they have to put one on your computer so that the website knows not to ask again the next time you visit.

My guess is every time you click that you don't want to have cookies there's a cookie on your computer that expires after 7 days. When websites create cookies there's also the option to have them expire after a certain point in time.
 
Ryewolf, thank you for the very good explanation of cookies. It will help Taddy…I hope.
I understand these bits of information (or at least I think I do because I knew all that is in your clear explanation)….which is why I do not want them.
It used to say when you logged off ‘all cookies cleared’.
I would be happy if the current server had an option to select only ‘essential’ cookies, but there isn’t.
So I am left with the job of unchecking all these toggles every seven days.

It isn’t as if there is a lot on the forum that warrants going through this process once a week.
I am getting close to the point of not bothering because it hardly seems worthwhile.
 
I think they called them ‘cookies’ so that we associate these things with something pleasant.
And who would reject a lovely cookie?
Well, not me if it is well baked and full of white chocolate bits….but the other sort can bu883r off.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
Ryewolf, thank you for the very good explanation of cookies. It will help Taddy…I hope.

Marge, After reading Ryewolfs well put together post I am no wiser and to be honest I am not particularly bothered, I will just carry on tickling the keyboard and see what (if anything) pops up.
By the way, I hope that Dave is improving, please give him Hazel and my best wishes.
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Margaret Pilkington said:
I would be happy if the current server had an option to select only ‘essential’ cookies, but there isn’t.
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Well it seems obvious that the forum isn't implementing a good cookie policy, not sure how you get around it. It should be unless you accept all cookies none should be the default. There should be two options Accept all and Decline all and even that is wrong
 
On Friday I went through that irritating ritual of denying access for those pesky cookies.
So yesterday I was again asked to permit these odious bits of crap.
I managed to use my back button and avoided the blasted request….but this morning I was asked again and could not dismiss.
What the hell….? Four days…..will it be every day soon?
It isn’t as if there is much to come here for….I am getting very close to kicking this place into the long grass.

Maybe I won’t be missed seeing as I know bu88er all about football!
 
again today I have been faced with the request for permission for this personal data stuff.

so I am not going to use my ipad anymore to look at Accyweb.
My ipad logs me out every time i leave the site.
My desk top doesn't.
And I have told my Desk top when it asked for this info the 'Buzz off'(or words to that effect.
Save my temper for things that are more important to be mad at!
 
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