Privacy Settings

pblakeney

Not sure if this applies to everyone, but it certainly does with this website and iPhones.
Next time you scroll through this website you might see a little “privacy settings” tab.
No need for me as I am fairly secure I thought, but I did out of curiosity. I am glad that I did.
Turns out I was sharing my data with literally hundreds of websites, only 2 of which I have had direct contact with. One of which was Motorola and I haven’t had a Motorola phone for 12 years!
If you have the function, use it!

tomb57

Thanks for the tip PB just checked mine couldn’t believe the numbers worth
Anyone else with the button checking thanks again chap.

Pross

Yep, I've been doing it a lot lately. Most sites are dressing it up so that you feel you have hit accept to proceed which I'm not sure is in the spirit of GDPR. There's usually another option that is worded so you won't realise you can alter the settings. At least on here it is fairly clear but it annoys me that it keeps coming up (although it does at least seem to save your preferences so you should be able to just hit accept once you've set everything to 'no').

Edit - I just checked mine using the button at the bottom of the page and they were all on accept again :?

fenix

Same with android.

I just rejected all of them - there seemed to be thousands and it seems to have worked.

Pross

Just be careful on this site, I don't know if it's just me but I regularly get the large pop up regarding privacy settings and when I check that it shows that if I had just hit accept everything had been set back to being on. It seems to be a blatant attempt to get people to inadvertently accept to their data being sold on!

laurentian

Pross wrote:

Just be careful on this site, I don't know if it's just me but I regularly get the large pop up regarding privacy settings and when I check that it shows that if I had just hit accept everything had been set back to being on. It seems to be a blatant attempt to get people to inadvertently accept to their data being sold on!

Same here, rejected everything yesterday and today all are back on.

surrey_commuter

laurentian wrote:

Pross wrote:

Just be careful on this site, I don't know if it's just me but I regularly get the large pop up regarding privacy settings and when I check that it shows that if I had just hit accept everything had been set back to being on. It seems to be a blatant attempt to get people to inadvertently accept to their data being sold on!

Same here, rejected everything yesterday and today all are back on.

bizarrely only one came back for me

pblakeney

Working fine for me.

dinyull

Think it depends on if you clear your cookies/ history.

surrey_commuter

Dinyull wrote:

Think it depends on if you clear your cookies/ history.

Good point - if you clear your cookies how would they know it is you?

cooldad

Mine seems to revert back every time I log on. Annoying. Can I report them to the EU before we go?

surrey_commuter

cooldad wrote:

Mine seems to revert back every time I log on. Annoying. Can I report them to the EU before we go?

Are you using different devices

rjsterry

Surrey Commuter wrote:

cooldad wrote:

Mine seems to revert back every time I log on. Annoying. Can I report them to the EU before we go?

Are you using different devices

IANAtechie but presumably your preferences are saved via a cookie so would be different for each device.

cooldad

Yes, but I've done the settings on all, Chromebook, desktop and phone.

DT at work, so I can't check, but Chromebook and phone keep reverting.

I use Chrome as the browser on all though?

First.Aspect

Well that was an eye opener. What an insidious website this is. I think I'd be safer doing one of those 50 question quizzes that 98% of British men can't answer.

pblakeney

Makes you wonder about all the other websites that you visit without the option though...
Use the internet and you have effectively left your front door open.

robert88

PBlakeney wrote:

Makes you wonder about all the other websites that you visit without the option though...
Use the internet and you have effectively left your front door open.

Yup, it's horses and stable doors.

Just live with the fact that there is no privacy on the internet. Facebook being a prime example. You might not use FB yourself, but you'll interact with hundreds of people who do, some who have a compulsion to document every moment of their miserable lives!

Pictures of you that you don't even know about will be there, identifiable through face recognition. Every CCTV camera has a record of you on it, of your car as it passes. The supermarket knows what you buy and stores the data away like a squirrel hiding nuts, except they can find it again. Sites you log on to will know which hand you hold your phone in, how fast you type, what sort of passwords you choose, who your mother's maiden aunt is probably. They'll know what you are thinking before you do! If it's any comfort it's aggregate data that commerce wants; only the state takes it really personally.

sungod

cooldad wrote:

Mine seems to revert back every time I log on. Annoying. Can I report them to the EU before we go?

why the eu? gdpr is part of uk law, you report issues to the ico https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

defaulting user accounts to "censored out my data" is a no no, websites that do it deserve a slapping

cooldad

Looks like the settings on my CB and phone have stayed ok overnight, will see desktop on Monday.

So Ok. I have no secrets anyway.

surrey_commuter

cooldad wrote:

Looks like the settings on my CB and phone have stayed ok overnight, will see desktop on Monday.

So Ok. I have no secrets anyway.

Same here - I would rather see targeted ads

rjsterry

Robert88 wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

Makes you wonder about all the other websites that you visit without the option though...
Use the internet and you have effectively left your front door open.

Yup, it's horses and stable doors.

Just live with the fact that there is no privacy on the internet. Facebook being a prime example. You might not use FB yourself, but you'll interact with hundreds of people who do, some who have a compulsion to document every moment of their miserable lives!

Pictures of you that you don't even know about will be there, identifiable through face recognition. Every CCTV camera has a record of you on it, of your car as it passes. The supermarket knows what you buy and stores the data away like a squirrel hiding nuts, except they can find it again. Sites you log on to will know which hand you hold your phone in, how fast you type, what sort of passwords you choose, who your mother's maiden aunt is probably. They'll know what you are thinking before you do! If it's any comfort it's aggregate data that commerce wants; only the state takes it really personally.

Anyone had fun looking at Google Maps Timeline?

Fascinating and discomforting at the same time.

Ben6899

rjsterry wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

Makes you wonder about all the other websites that you visit without the option though...
Use the internet and you have effectively left your front door open.

Yup, it's horses and stable doors.

Just live with the fact that there is no privacy on the internet. Facebook being a prime example. You might not use FB yourself, but you'll interact with hundreds of people who do, some who have a compulsion to document every moment of their miserable lives!

Pictures of you that you don't even know about will be there, identifiable through face recognition. Every CCTV camera has a record of you on it, of your car as it passes. The supermarket knows what you buy and stores the data away like a squirrel hiding nuts, except they can find it again. Sites you log on to will know which hand you hold your phone in, how fast you type, what sort of passwords you choose, who your mother's maiden aunt is probably. They'll know what you are thinking before you do! If it's any comfort it's aggregate data that commerce wants; only the state takes it really personally.

Anyone had fun looking at Google Maps Timeline?

Fascinating and discomforting at the same time.

"You have no Location History..."

rjsterry

Trouble is I've got too much of a maps and stats fetish to turn it off. Oddly enough I've not had any kind of bike computer for years and never used Strava. Google Maps' geolocation is a bit hit and miss, though and some data is way off.

pblakeney

Not having a Google account helps....

capt_slog

These bloody privacy settings won't leave me alone now!

Everytime the page refreshers/changes it asks me yet again. I 'saved and exited' about 8 times now, is there anything i can do to stop it?

kajjal

The continual resetting to ON and asking you to accept it suggests it is a deliberate attempt to get you to approve this.

haydenm

Capt Slog wrote:

These bloody privacy settings won't leave me alone now!

Everytime the page refreshers/changes it asks me yet again. I 'saved and exited' about 8 times now, is there anything i can do to stop it?

Same here. Might stay away for a few days to let it sort itself out, this is taking the p1ss.

oxoman

Thanks for the heads up

orraloon

Agreed. This is getting bleepin' annoying now.

There are other fora you know Messrs Site Owners.

FishFish

I have set CCleaner to erase cookies and whatever else it does on exiting the browser and I've not had any problems. I suppose it deletes all of the cookies - but no record of actual deletions to confirm this.

oxoman

Just a heads up, decline all as suggested and scroll right to the bottom and press save and exit. Took a bit of scrolling down buts it there and works.