New consent form - UPDATE: Link to FAQs here

It’s putting me off even opening Gransnet now... how tedious... how many more times do I have to fill in the blooming form?

My tablet is not feeling like a safe place at all. I made some changes after following this thread and it's probably made things worse. When you're not tech savvy the language used on instructions of how to stop data being stored etc is not accessible and who knows what happens and who has access to your data, criminals no doubt.

Thank You Lily.

Nana3...if you go to 'settings' then apps and storage....you should be able to clear everything on your device. I've been doing that more and more recently.

Thanks ladymuck, I'll give it a try."

Gosh I'm slow.! I've only just realised what they are doing. When you give permission for them to put cookies on your device, they are also putting cookies on all other devices which use the same router. This means other members of your household will be tracked too.
I really don't think this should be allowed.

If you clear all cookies, will you not then be able to access things like your bank?

You can label which cookies are to be protected and kept, the options are somewhere in your browser settings.

If you clear all cookies, you can still access your bank and other sites, you just lose saved passwords.

It's good practice anyway, to clear your cookies regularly.

Marydoll for somebody like myself who lives alone and is not computer literate I find it is all beyond me. Luckily I have an excellent ad blocker which helps.

I understand exactly what you are saying Charleygirl, Nowadays it's wrongly assumed that everyone is at ease with technology.

When I started sheilding, I was contacted by my LA asking if I needed support to access online shopping and prescriptions.
I said I was fine, but asked what happens to people who have no access to the internet nor are not computer literate. An example would be sheilding updates to your phone. What if you don't have a smart phone?
The officer said it was a great concern that vulnerable people were slipping through the net, due to a reliance on technology.

I was complaining to my bank this morning about this reliance on all things digital after a large payment went missing.
I was able to check certain things electronically, before contacting them.
It turns out security systems were being updated, just as I was making the payment!! ?
How does someone go about sorting it, if they have no expertise? But that's for another thread.

I do love using technology and am computer literate, but not for banking.

I hope GNHQ takes notice of people who are not au fait with this request to update permissions and gives a CLEAR and SIMPLE explanation.
The thing about techies (my son is one) is that they thing everyone understands Computerspeak.

Lara, you say that you HAVE to do much of it this way -

a lot of that is dictated by the IAB so is out of our hands

If that is really true, why is it that Gransnet is the ONLY website where I have to move around 40 sliders to "opt out"???

Even on the IAB's own website they have ONE opt out button!
www.iabuk.com/

I didn’t think I was thick but I don’t understand all this at all. When it first popped up, I just automatically clicked on consent before I realised all the ramifications and hoo ha that was going on. How do I rescind this now? I certainly don’t want to give carte blanche to anyone to look at all my appliances (not right word but I can’t think of correct one) and feel very nervous about what I’ve given permission to.

One of the problems is the sheer persistence of the consent form. Having to accept/decline each time we log in is very wearing! Surely once we have filled in the form our status could go on our profile and stay there?

Now that I've logged in and consented on all my devices, I haven't had to accept again. I have done random checks and all are grey, apart from the legitimate interest ones, which have reverted to blue.

I think what everyone wants to know is how we can permanently change the ‘legitimate interest’ ones to grey?

The fact that the option is there surely indicates that we have a choice?

Is that correct?

Exactly this JenniferEccles; and I'd like to know what legitimate interest is and who decides it. I've repeatedly slid them all to grey and they repeatedly slide back to blue.

Nothing’s changed folks. I just spent 10 minutes greying every darn thing and submitting it to find on checking they’ve all been blued again!

I think the legitimate interest ones are ungreyable. They ought not to be presented as though they are options.

Elegran

I think the legitimate interest ones are ungreyable. They ought not to be presented as though they are options.

Exactly so Elegran. Why present something as a choice when in fact it isn't?

Maybe we should all disappear from gransnet for a while until they make us feel safe again .