“Continue to site”

I’m not being ignorant of anything and we have high level devs here too.

That popup is not our software. It comes with the ads. It’s an industry standard solution to GDPR compliance implemented by StreamAMP.

Yes, it’s shit. So is the GDPR legislation which wasn’t thought through properly.

It it is what it is. I’m beyond caring.

Yeah, me too. You’d think I’d be less inclined to subscribe wouldn’t you?

Well nope, actually throughout this whole forum upgrade and Gdpr privacy stuff I reckon Mark et all have learned the scale and scope of those rules that effect users of online sites.

Thankfully users are now clearly informed, it’s easy to modify privacy settings, we now know how our data is being used/utilised by anonymous companies who provide click/spend profiles to organisations like STW. Ad blokers and tracker blockers are a useful tool, but as the landscape changes online we will be using less and less of that blunt form of privacy invasive blocker and become more reliant on the immediate service provider being open to the use and allow a certain number of privacy options to us.

I’m still against those anonymous companies who hive data off, but at least I can with some level of trust trust STW (and other media) to choose selectively those services that meet both STW’s need to have a revenue stream and my needs to keep my privacy limited online.

To those that think Gdpr is just a blunt instrument to stop unwanted emails and being taken off marketing companies distribution lists, then think more around the what/how/why and who looks at your data whilst online.

I have re-subscribed because I think Mark et all have been up front with the issues I’ve mentioned, and handled them pretty well.

Thanks @Bikebouy

For me the gdpr stuff is great.  Allows me to control who sees my data

Anyone who does not see the advantages of this do you think the Cambridge analytica data mining and it’s use to subordinate elections is OK?

The GDPR consent has to be stored in a cookie. Your consent is required for every device you use to access the site.

one would imagine it’s hardly beyond the ken of man to store the actions of one user on one device, then just pop up when they log in from another, and say ‘hey! you took this coarse of action earlier, are you happy for us to apply the same options with this device?’

but then i guess if you’re using a third party’s s/w you don’t have a lot of control over how things are set up.

Mark – quite simply, put a “select all” “deselect all”.

Its really not hard yet it is something you seem very very reluctant to do.(the deselect all one)

The same with all the ones that you have to visit their site to opt out of.

Make them part of the “deselect all” button or you are going to find a marked increase in the use  of ad-blockers being used full stop.

At the risk of repeating what has already been stated on a number of other threads – You seem either ignorant of, or deliberately ignoring the fact that there are a hell of a lot of high level devs here.

presumably some of those devs aren’t all that high level if they miss the detail that there’s a third party’s s/w being deployed….

i do agree with

It should not be necessary to have to visit a shit load of external sites when you are the one having them operating through yours.

however.

The number of users with accounts to log in to is a small proportion of site visitors. If it was a case of only needing consent from account holders then it would be possible to gain consent from a single user regardless of device. But since consent is required from every site visitor, the majority of whom do not have accounts, consent has to be cookie based and therefore collected on every device.

The good news is that if the value of online ads drops in every sense then the dead tree press could get a bit of an increase in ads…

and we have high level devs here too.

recent recruits ? why did you bother recruiting them now, surely it would have been better to recruit them before you did that upgrade ??

🙂

Mac/Chrome there is no way of getting rid of the pop up unless you click yes – there is zero option to adjust the preferences at all!

”Privacy policy” is useless as despite links to a few external sites – NONE are opt-outs.

Shouldn’t there be a warning with it too?

Mac/Chrome there is no way of getting rid of the pop up unless you click yes – there is zero option to adjust the preferences at all!

Windows 10/Firefox all I get is accept and enter or don’t. Can’t find anywhere to adjust opt ins/outs.

If you are not a subscriber you are worth a little under 1p per day to us in ad revenue.

If you opt out of personalised ads that figure drops by around 25%

I’m surprised it is that much to be honest. How many ads does a user have to see to be worth the 1p?

It has been proven that you do not need many data points to deanonymise anonymous data.

Just two in the case of geo-tagged data sets!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/13/anonymous-browsing-data-medical-records-identity-privacy