Hi, you posted something explains how to disable the companies Tumblr can share info with (thank you!) except I have no cookie consent button. Should I just check back in a few days, see if it's updated? Why isn't it there??
and similar questions from @forsurebuddy and @ofthesilverforest and @blackdragon743 and many people in the notes:
a lot of people are saying that they can’t see the button and the common factor is that they’re outside the EU. When I made that post, I didn’t realise that Tumblr had not made the ‘opt out’ available for non-EU users.
I think one user in the EU has also not been able to access it, but that could be a glitch.
The GDPR only applies in the EU, and apparently Tumblr have decided that they’d rather not give anyone else the choice to refuse data sharing unless they’re legally forced to.
If you’re outside the EU, you might be able to opt out at https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/us/en/optout/ which should also apply to other Oath sites including Tumblr. Make sure to opt out of both ‘around the web’ and ‘on yahoo sites’. There is at least a handy ‘opt out of all’ button.
Oddly enough I had to click through an Oath screen (with, again, a list of 300 companies - though this time they defaulted to opt-out) to even get on the site. That appears to be a separate thing? This whole interface is just needlessly confusing.
@skateboardingedging and a few other people asked:
whenever I try to deactivate the Cookie Consent, it takes me back to the new Terms site and…they’re all fucking activated again? and i cannot go to any other page unless I click ‘ok or uncheck them and the cycle repeats itself.
Yeah so what I think is happening here is that when you revoke the cooke consent, it completely forgets about you - including the fact that you’ve opted out of all those sites. So it shows you the default ‘do you want to share data’ page, with all the data sharing enabled by default.
I could be wrong, but I believe when you uncheck all the sharing partners, it does actually stick when you click ‘accept’ (or whatever the button is), but there’s no actual way to show it except perhaps using that aim.yahoo.com link above.
I rather regret not realising these things when I wrote that post. It’s become by orders of magnitude the most popular post I’ve ever made, and unfortunately that means a lot of questions about where the Cookie Consent button is from non-EU users.
@staff should perhaps consider providing the ability to opt out of data sharing to everyone because, it turns out, a whole lot of people don’t like their browsing history to be shared with 300 random companies for the sake of ad personalisation...
