Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:
Now you’ll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:
Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.
You’ll also want to check your settings after, as the first time I unchecked it didn’t save
Here’s how to find these settings if you clicked ‘OK’:
Note that the ‘Cookie Consent’ toggle will only appear if you are on a European IP address. I had to switch off my VPN to make it appear.
Un-checking the Cookie Consent toggle will take you back to the pop-up described in this post. Un-check all the toggles**, click ‘Done’, but DO NOT CLICK ‘OK’ AFTERWARDS.
Clicking OK will RESET ALL THE TOGGLES YOU JUST UNCHECKED. Instead go back to ‘Manage options’ again:
…where you can confirm that everything is still unchecked. From the ‘Manage options’ page, click ‘Accept’ to accept the new agreement with your preferences (hopefully???) saved.
** A handy tip from @saurosuchus-ostraviensii: “If you’re going to uncheck all the 322 companies, you can just click on the first toggle and then go tab, tab, spacebar a lot of times if you don’t want to click your hand into oblivion.”
Okay, so I have been through these instructions twice now… (and there are 300+ companies – so it isn’t an insignificant task). But when I go back in to check that they are toggled off, nothing has been saved and they are all switched back on again. In other words @staff it isn’t saving the changes which is goddamn illegal.
everything pops back to default. no change is saved.
@staff needs to address this because this is bullshit.
YOUR CUTESY USE OF MY NICKNAME (badcats) WILL NOT SEE YOU FORGIVEN THIS DAY
(andrew waking up and going to practice and talking to neil on the phone and going to lunch with the rebels and then his phone goes off and he doesn’t recognise the number-)
(neil dying when he’s out of andrew’s reach and out of his sight, where andrew could do nothing except get the call to say it’s already too late)
(andrew waking up the next morning and being okay until he remembers)
(except he’s lying in bed and his coach calls to ask where the hell he is and he doesn’t have words (or purpose) so he gets out of bed and goes without saying anything)
(and then he’s halfway there when neil calls him worrying because rebels management called him wondering where andrew was, and andrew has to wonder whether he’s gone crazy) (crazier) (but he goes to practice, and then skips lunch with the rebels, and then his phone goes off and he doesn’t recognise the number-)
(and then he’s waking up again and he’s calling neil and he’s alright, he’s fine, even though andrew’s having a truly spectacular mental break and neil promises he’s getting on a plane and coming home, and andrew is almost okay – until the afternoon when andrew’s phone goes off and he doesn’t recognise the number-)
(and then he’s waking up again.)
(three times, three different ways to die. either andrew’s losing it or something is fucking going on here, but either way, somehow, he’s going to find out a way to stop it)
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