Recently, a cookie popup is now implemented on the page, however, there’s an issue:
Whenever you click on the decline button on the popup and reload the page, it reappears.
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Yeah, that’s the point. Those popups are designed to be annoying and even possibly appear buggy to the user to convince them to cave in and accept.
Use your adblocker to block the popup. The Cookie Consent link does not let you disable marketing/analytics cookies anyway.
In this case and most cookie consent cases, refusing to opt in is the same as an opt out. So do that. I use extensions that block tracking cookies, analytics and marketing services as well.
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What can happen if we do click accept…
Nothing special. Usually it’s along the lines of Google Analytics/Hotjar/etc. which have been happening on the Internet for decades.
Oh ok. I know in the past accepting cookies has caused me to become hacked on other sites, so I thought it was some scam or something
No, every website sells your data, not just the ones that have a cookie consent banner.
Cookie consent just gives them permission to put tracking cookies on your computer. To identify you, so they can associate the pages you visit and the things you do with one online profile. Google uses this to track you across the entire Internet and sell your information to advertisers to target you with ads. Of course, most trackers don’t care about this permission and collect info about you by default unless you explicitly opt out, which doesn’t seem to be an option here.
I’m willing to bet that there’s a single profile online that contains just about every website you’ve ever visited, every username you’ve ever used, etc. This kind of data selling is how free services remain free.
Also, just to clarify - Roblox is not taking your data and selling it off. They’re just including another tracker, like perhaps Google Analytics which collects it for them and lets them view it. Stuff like, how many page views they get, what buttons are clicked most, etc. Google is the one that sells it for their own gain, but Roblox has something to gain from it too and they’re not being evil or shady by seeing things like how many page views their site gets.
I use extensions to limit the tracking, like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, and a few adblockers (Adblock Plus and AdNauseam to name a couple). But you’re not gonna get out of it, obviously you are still logged in even if you decline, yes? Cookie consent is there so that they look like they’re following laws. In reality, it’s yet another one of those “by using our website you agree to yadda yadda yadda” situations.
In a legal situation, if you don’t consent to cookies then they shouldn’t put cookies on your computer. But the everyday user isn’t going to sue Roblox for letting them log in before they clicked the accept button. And data collection and farming and selling is such a big business that it’s almost impossible to fight it.
In summary: This is no more a scam than any other site, Google, Twitter, Jargon File etc. They’re just trying to be polite, and ask you for your permission before they track you.
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So for that to go away after pressing decline, they’d need to save a cookie stating that you don’t want cookies, which is counterproductive.
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And since you don’t want cookies, the cookie saying you don’t want cookies get deleted! Eureka! They’ve been in the right all along!
@anon66957764 - You can’t have it not popup. Please do not try to say they’re watching us.
If you click Accept, it creates a cookie confirming your agreement. If you click Decline, it goes away- but theres no way for it to tell you declined when you reload without breaking the cookie law.
This is an unfixable issue.
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It’s probably not a glitch. They are following a law passed in Europe regarding data/cookies. Every website that does business in Europe now serves the entire world this annoying notice. If you accept, a cookie is placed allowing you to skip this notice. If you decline, no cookie is set. If no cookie is set the website has no idea if you’ve seen this annoyance 1 time or 1000 times.
Nothing to fix except maybe make the Decline button kick you off the website… something not recommended either.
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If you want the website to remember you and your preferences then you have to give it permission to remember you and your preferences.
If you don’t give them that permission, then don’t expect it to remember you or your preferences.
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FWIW the new cookie banner doesn’t mean the forum is necessarily doing anything it wasn’t doing last week (i.e. storing new cookies). It’s just a legal thing they have to prompt to (certain) users.
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Yeah. It also doesn’t mean the forum is even using any tracking cookies.
For some reason, the banner disappeared… I guess it’s required for all users even if we decline
It’s probably being refined more since it caused some confusion
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