[Closed] You value my privacy - every 10 minutes!

It's REALLY important to them

Oddly, I see about the same number of threads on the subject as I do things to click mentioning my privacy....

"p" is not just for privacy

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

When do the schools break up for Christmas? I think that's when the developers can take break from their homework and fix a few things.

I'll make Tech aware.  What platform / browser?

Still constantly happening with me too. I've had 3 phones in the last few months, all have had exactly the same continual oiouo, it's infuriating. All Android with most up to date Chrome browser version.

All with synchronised settings and plugins?

There's clearly something going on client side which is affecting the writing / reading of cookies, or it'd affect everyone (see also, people complaining of being logged out all the time).  Some sort of adblocker / script blocker / other random 'security' setting or plugin on your phone is playing silly buggers, I'll put money on it.

Classic STW victim blaming

I thought it was just me. Mine pops up every every minute.

If it was a plugin or script it would be affecting more than just this site surely?

Fwiw adblock sorts the privacy popup and kills the rogue script that causes the page to hang up. That's on Firefox on Windows and Android. Safari seems fine for me oddly enough though I am on an ipad 4 (retina) so ios 9 I think?

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so it seems......

twice this week I've had to play whackamole to try and avoid the pop ups when I've been logged out of laptop.

This is the only site I visit that this happens why can everywhere else get it right and yet this place can't?

There’s clearly something going on client side

Are people experiencing this with this site, and this site only?

Yep this site only. It's ridiculous. Any page change and there it is. Happily go p but you complain too.

Pixel2 latest chrome and android.

Are people experiencing this with this site, and this site only?

For me at least yes. Only ever here.

I never have the same issues anywhere else I visit (plenty of other similar forums etc)

(same with the weird spellcheck errors. Only ever happens here.)

Can’t figure how it can be blamed on user settings when the whole rest of the internet seems to be totally ok with my settings.

If by the weird spellcheck errors you mean Swiftkey on Android, then there was a relatively recent update to this which did sort it out for me.

But this is the only errr...respectable... site where I've had page hijacks and popups recently, browsing incognito on Chrome.

Are people experiencing this with this site, and this site only?

Yeah, but somebody, somewhere else may have had the problem on another site, and you can't prove they haven't, so it's not STW's fault. That's what I was told, anyway.

If by the weird spellcheck errors you mean Swiftkey on Android

No it’s ios on iPhone. It just corrects things into really weird words rather than the normal spellcheck type errors. Not a big problem (but only ever happens here)

only ever happens here

I sense there may be a common theme developing, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Are people experiencing this with this site, and this site only?

Yes, and only since the update, on the same phone I didn't get the issue with previously. Tried the STW cookie killer thing, still the same.

Yep this site only. It’s ridiculous. Any page change and there it is. Happily go p but you complain too.

Pixel2 latest chrome and android.

Snap. Given up browsing on mobile due to this and the not knowing what thread you actually clicked on issue which also only affects this site.

My guess is that it's not the STW site that's causing the popup, its the ads. Lets just say I've never seen it...

Yeah, happening to me too.

Get logged out on each visit to the site, Privacy pop up comes up, have to accept all the bollocks, then log back in again.

After logging back in again it looks like they’ve also changed the screen sizing because now I have a black border which is no doubt obliterated with adverts.

Even I, someone who respects the owners views, am getting cheesed off with the way the site has been built and released, and all the bugs that clearly are still here.. bugs mentioned after the upgrade still haven’t been fixed, and that sodding Privacy Statement I want to ram up someone’s arse.

that sodding Privacy Statement I want to ram up someone’s arse.

I’m not sure they’d value that.

🤣👏👍

Perhaps they might notice it though Drac.....

Still happening to me. Last night and this morning. Every few seconds, then nothing, then it happens again

I preferred it when companies didn't value our privacy...

Twice in the time its taken me to read this thread - now thrice-

Windows phone, only happens here. I am always logged in.

Yep same here, both on ipad and iphone, when logged in or when loged out.

Doesnt really matter on the ipad as i cant read more than a couple of posts before the page decides to re-load so I've given up

All with synchronised settings and plugins?

There’s clearly something going on client side which is affecting the writing / reading of cookies, or it’d affect everyone (see also, people complaining of being logged out all the time).  Some sort of adblocker / script blocker / other random ‘security’ setting or plugin on your phone is playing silly buggers, I’ll put money on it.

Nope. The second of the three phones was a temporary one and I couldn't sync anything with it, the behaviour of the popup was the same. This is the only site I visit that has this issue, I'd equally put money on it being a STW issue, not client side.

same here, on Google Chrome with no plugins ( at work) on a W7 PC.

Every couple of minutes. Cookie killer predictably useless. What with jump about page loads, links doing the hokey cokey and privacy popups this will probably the last attempt I make at reading and posting on this shonktastic site without the protection of ad blocker on the desktop browser.

16+(?)year old susbscription renewal cancelled months ago. Still no reason to resubscribe.

What if they don't actually value our privacy at all?

#makesyouthink

What if they don’t actually value our privacy at all?

#makesyouthink

I think that they might value their own privacy much, much more than ours.

Perhaps that’s why they go on Facebook and tell users to Foxtrot Oscar.

Been an issue on my PC on google chrome for months, in the last couple of days it now affects my mobile chrome browser too, every time I get a new page.

Happens every time I enter a thread or navigate around the forum. It's only this site that's the problem. I'm on latest version of android.

#stwexit

😉

Perhaps that’s why they go on Facebook and tell users to Foxtrot Oscar.

Really? Where? Not on FB myself.

Happening here too on the laptop with chrome, really annoying.

I'm on a Galaxy S9, with Android. Doesn't matter if I'm logged on or out. I get the pop-up with every page change. It's extremely frustrating. Only happens on this site. I did raise a similar thread several weeks ago about this. Nothing has improved, in the interim.

I'm not sure about which is more annoying - the constant privacy reminders or the fact that I cannot make adverts featuring Jim Davidson go away.

On balance, I'll happily click an acknowledgement about my internet privacy every five minutes from now on if that'll help?

Still happening for me too.

And me. Every page change. Desktop version of Chrome for me.