Managing your cookie preferences on Gransnet

I have to click on "I accept" every time I open Gransnet.

On all devices.

The first time this happened, I looked at the list of things and the default seemed to be "Off" for all of the names listed.

I'm with yggdrasil on this.
Are we expected to trawl through the ridiculously endless lists (which don't really explain in simple language whether those companies sell on our info to yet more 3rd parties...or not)
I get unbelievably annoyed at the constant blocks of data protection and cookie blurb with which we are bombarded umpteen times a day.
On the phone or online...It's wasting hours of our time to listen to the data blurb and then options within options then requests to stay on the line after the call or texts asking for feedback. Every blooming company, every blooming day.

As if you haven't got enough to do.....

Sorry again.

I am so sorry. It was totally my fault.

I'm with yygdrasil - privacy levels set as high as possible on all social media sites, ad blocker running.

I too ignore any site that makes my access difficult - accept my terms or I'll go elsewhere. And do on many occasions now.

Don't you just love (not) those (not GN) who trill at you "Your Privacy is important to us". No it isn't, your attempts to harvest my data are what's important to you!!

When I click on the Black Dog Gang thread it whizzes down the page and finishes up on 27th - 28th December. Every time.

If you delete cookies regularly you should not have a problem surely?

[shrug] [old]

I can't preview, nence the errors!!!!

I have found taht if you use Ctrl and Enter, it woeks.

I have had a terrible time trying to post for over an hour on the Good Morning thread, after setting my preferences.
I had to keep logging in each time, what a pain.

It won't even let me post this comment!!

I’m not sure if I will stay on a site which doesn’t give me control of my preferences.

I have an ad blocker also. Won't let me post on some threads. Hopeless!

There are a great many sites now that won't let you see what they have unless you agree to them having access to your data. I just go somewhere else for my information. I nearly did the same with Gransnet. I have all my privacy levels set as hard as I can with social media sites, and I also run an ad blocker. Which I have no intention of switching off. (It is so good I even pay for it)

But there was no way to get that information until you'd completed what Elegran has described. I almost abandoned GN, as the list of companies is massive and if I'd made the wrong choice I suspect I would have been inundated with what I regard as Spam. I don't want anyone deciding 'what might interest me' and I never click on ads.

Bump. Note to EVERYONE. This is not a geeky technical message, it is a simple way for you to choose what you see onscreen. When you get the opportunity to do this, DO IT You can choose whether your reactions, clicks on ads etc will be recorded and used to "bring you what interests you", whether to be shown ads about things on which you have commented, and so on.

Some things are "required" - you won't see anything of GN without them - some could be on or off and the choice is yours. The default if you do nothing is "ON" and you have to set them to "OFF" yourself to prevent them being operative.

This is your chance to choose.

Thanks for letting us know this, Lara I may have to read it again when the crunch comes.

I am willing to bet, also, that you will need to repeat the post a few times!