Cookies and Tracking on MacRumors

[Colonel Panik]

I've disabled all but the essential cookies on macrumors. When I visit, every single time I'm asked to review my cookies settings.
I'm guessing if I accepted the cookies I wouldn't be asked on every.single.fn.visit?

It's a dirty practice and makes macrumors much less desirable. I'm visiting once a week now, whereas I was a regular.

Does anyone who has accepted all cookies get asked to review settings every time they visit???

 

[arn]

What comes up when you come back? Is it the same dialog box or something different?

Can you post a screenshot?

 

[arn]

So I just tested this. And I don't see it popping up a dialog box every time.

The consent cookie looks to be set for 1 year.

Are you somehow clearing cookies? Or rejecting cookies? between sessions?

arn

 

[Colonel Panik]

Hi Arn, I waited a bit to check that there was no updating, and that I was using the same browser, etc.
Seems that of the 5 gdpr cookies, 3 of them expire after a week. The "gdpr-last-interaction" cookie seems to be the particular cookie that triggers the renewal. So once a week per browser, I'll get asked to renew my choice, and I have to Click Manage Settings and 'Accept and Save'.

Looking at the cookies, none of them are set for a year.

 

[arn]

thanks. looking into this further with our ad network

 

[arn]

Hi Arn, I waited a bit to check that there was no updating, and that I was using the same browser, etc.
Seems that of the 5 gdpr cookies, 3 of them expire after a week. The "gdpr-last-interaction" cookie seems to be the particular cookie that triggers the renewal. So once a week per browser, I'll get asked to renew my choice, and I have to Click Manage Settings and 'Accept and Save'.

Looking at the cookies, none of them are set for a year.

Ironically...

Safari's anti tracking changes seem to be responsible.

Safari Plans to Disable First-Party Cookies After 7 Days

Apple is changing how Safari manages cookies, and that will affect how digital marketers measure unique users and produce cross-channel attribution.

alightanalytics.com

Cookies set by Javascript can only be set for 7 days max. Still looking into this.

 

[Colonel Panik]

Yes, I was thinking it might be the culprit.

 

[MacBH928]

you should disable ads, tracking, and malicious cookies for paid subscribers.

 

[arn]

you should disable ads, tracking, and malicious cookies for paid subscribers.

Ads are removed for paid subscribers.

A couple of analytics things remain but we can look at those again, but those aren’t trackers in the normally used sense.

 

[laptech]

Every 3-4 months I get a cookie window opening asking me to accept the cookie. I would like to know that when consent is turned off for vendors it does not disable 'legitimate interest'? (can manually switch it to no BUT you have to do it to all the vendors and there is a huge amount making it very time consuming) why is this because to me, it means that my details are still being sent to your vendors even if the consent button is set to No. Is MR hiding something?

 

[arn]

Every 3-4 months I get a cookie window opening asking me to accept the cookie. I would like to know that when consent is turned off for vendors it does not disable 'legitimate interest'? (can manually switch it to no BUT you have to do it to all the vendors and there is a huge amount making it very time consuming) why is this because to me, it means that my details are still being sent to your vendors even if the consent button is set to No. Is MR hiding something?

Not sure I understand your question.

But the reason is it keeps coming up is if the original consent cookie is lost, either Safari clearing it, or the user clearing it. It’s officially set for 1 year but recent versions of Safari don’t allow those cookies to stay for longer than a week.

 

[laptech]

Not sure I understand your question.

But the reason is it keeps coming up is if the original consent cookie is lost, either Safari clearing it, or the user clearing it. It’s officially set for 1 year but recent versions of Safari don’t allow those cookies to stay for longer than a week.

When it happens again I will take a screenshot to show you what I mean.

 

[laptech]

Hello arn, here is a screenshot of what I was talking about in one of my posts
Even though I have consent turned off for the cookie, when I click on the vendors tab and click on the arrow to show it's contents, I get what you see in the screenshot. Consent is turned off everywhere but yet legitimate interest is still enabled which means I have to do this manually to over 50 of your vendors.

I know you do not want members disabling stuff because you need money to keep the site going which I do not have a problem with but what I do have a problem with is your vendors tracking me and keeping hold of my data and making it difficult in the process for me to stop them doing that.

 

[madmin]

Hi, having lived with this cookie banner model popup every time I visit here for what seems like several years (Safari private window) I was pleasantly surprised to notice that it had stopped recently. I don't know what you changed but phew thanks !