No Matter How Many Billions Of Times...

[Old_Geezer]

...I'm told that you respect my privacy the answer is always 'reject all'. And the cycle of getting logged out, trying to log back in, and then being told again that you accept my privacy, is getting a little tedious. Can it be stopped ?

[pixie374]

Why are you so worried about being monitored? I have genuinely noticed no difference... it hasn't affected me in the slightest.

[Old_Geezer]

Why would anyone not be bothered about being monitored. It's an affront to any free citizen.

[pixie374]

Not to me....they can monitor me all they like, and be bored senseless, no doubt. I doubt even a single individual knows or cares anything more than they did before. Your choice of course, if you are happy to continue as you are, carry on x

[ToraToraTora]

"Yes but the demand for spying permission" - it just wants permission to store helpful data on your machine, what "spying" do you think is occurring?

[Mamyalynne]

He won't have it Tora, no way.

[ToraToraTora]

the law changed recently to force all sites to ask before putting cookies on your machine, they store data that helps the smooth usage of the site, they are adding data to your machine, not spying, they can do that anyway if they are malicious. Before the law changed all sites were doing it without asking for permission. OG in the past you have been letting them store all manner of things from all sites because you were none the wiser. Now you know about it you are making your own life more difficult.

[pixie374]

Yes... OG, I think you believe you are proving a point or some kind of misplaced principle. But you are only making it harder for yourself... nobody else cares or is worried by it x

[ToraToraTora]

OG any site can "spy" without telling you anyway.

[ToraToraTora]

oops that might be too much of a revelation!

[naomi24]

You're on a one man crusade, OG, and one you can't win. Pointless getting your knickers in a knot over it. Just go with the flow.

[Old_Geezer]

Never. Needs sorting.

[ToraToraTora]

can you not see OG, all they do is store some details about you on your own machine so that they can use it later to not annoy you.

[Spicerack]

I suspect OG is undercover. (say no more)

[sanmac]

OG is having problems, he says, logging on to AB. My suggestion previously, and still is, to NOT log off. Or am I missing something here?

[Spicerack]

Yes, that stupid cookie thing keeps logging him out. It gets on my toot and I always accept cookies.

[Ken4155]

Me too, but I only eat the Hobnobs.

[ToraToraTora]

sanmac, to stay logged in you must accept cookies. By refusing that he must log in each time, that means he must refuse or deny accepting cookies each time. If he leaves the site each time he comes back he has the same problem. He could leave AB on it's own tab or window to reduce the repetition but the best thing to do is to accept cookies.

[ToraToraTora]

good job he doesn't using Internet banking!

[ToraToraTora]

what OG fails to grasp is that before the law change they were storing cookies anyway without his knowledge and he was using AB with less aggravation than now. The only difference is that they now must ask permission. Suddenly OG thinks he's being spied on though nothing has actually changed.

[sanmac]

Thanks. TTT. I don't recall ever being asked to accept cookies. However, I don't live in the UK. Would that make a difference?