Consent/legitimate interest Reject All button?

I’ve just had this again.

@Bagadverts you were wondering what it is that comes up on screen - these are the shots I just took. You’re asked to Confirm Choices or Accept All - but if you don’t want to proceed, before doing that you need to untoggle the ‘legitimate interest’ buttons which are automatically set to ‘on’.

Then you also need to click on ‘Vendor preferences’, which opens up a new, huge list of ‘legitimate interests’ which need to be untoggled too. These seem, to me anyway, to be to be unacceptably intrusive - I don’t want my device being tracked for a year by many of these companies (almost 3 years in at least one case!).

It will take a long time to do all this, and many people will just click on ‘Accept All’ without checking further. But I’m not happy about this at all, nor about the continued silence from @MNHQ - any comment to the many people raising concerns, please?

I have just gone through this process of rejecting cookies and now I can't load MN on my usual browsers. I have moved to Firefox, but I suppose it is only a matter of time... I suppose eventually won't be able to use MN at all, which will be a shame after 15 years.

I’d like the option of a ‘reject all’ button for here too.
If you don’t ‘accept all’ the site doesn’t load properly at the moment. These things really should be optional. There’s another thread about the lack of genuine choice going in Site Stuff.

It's a pity MNHQ have not commented on this thread, and the enduring repeat issue that some posters have

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I have also had to spent about 10 mins doing this yet again!! I have to reject cookies every few days - surely that’s dodgy legally as it’s almost coercing me out of frustration to accept?! This is the only site that requires this ridiculous amount of effort to reject cookies.

This is a piss take. This is now every week. Ive had to do this AGAIN today, i only did this the 29th!
What is going on???
Do i just keep getting fed up and finally accept them?

When can we have an update on this?

I never sign up to marketing emails so if this is a stealth way to do it then that’s annoying.

What do they do with all this data and legitimate interest

I don't know about Mumsnet, but I think this is where they get you with any mere view of a website generates a bombardment of marketing emails unless you bother to check and change all the cookies settings. You look at a website, that's legitimate interest and a green light for them to bombard you with crap forevermore.

Whatever happened to all those GDPR emails that told us that if we ignored them and didn't resign up to everything, they could never email us again? I get about ten times more than I ever did now and I never sign up to marketing emails.

Yes again for me today.

What do they do with all this data and legitimate interest?
Betgenius was one of the companies. It’s all confusing

Easy not wasy.

I dont remember ever being asked this (maybe i accepted cookies originally). Mumsnet Id like to know how to manually go back and unaccept please.

I think in this day and age we should have control of our data and wasy opt outs even after the fact?

I have just been asked again, only 5 days since I last rejected all cookies. Again, no changes on my device. Please can @mnhq and @justinemumsnet explain why this is happening? It can’t be happening to all users or I am sure there would be more discussion.

Also, do you have a clearer ETA on when this will be resolved? Thanks

Why am i having to do this every other week?
Its getting to the stage where im not bothering to come on the site as im fed up of the hassle!

Thanks Halsal.
By chance the box popped up a couple of hours ago and I spent time clicking boxes. Hope they fix things soon.

You don't need to have a Google account. I assume what people are experiencing is that they go to open a MN page as normal on their tablet or phone and the request for permissions suddenly flashes up, so they can't access the site until they've dealt with it. This is what happens with me. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why/when the request pops up.

Essentially there are a few clicks to opt out of some things but then if you want to deny permission for many dozens of partners, you need to go to another page and manually deselect them - as pps have said, this involves well over 100 clicks and is a process that feels onerous if you have to keep doing it regularly. A 'Reject All' button would be the obvious answer - or I've noticed many sites have a two-part option whereby you can reject all cookies and also 'Object All' to so-called 'legitimate interests'.

Can someone tell me what to click to get to the right place to reject cookies. I click on the privacy link and get the main page, when I try to change it just scrolls back to the top of the page. Help!. Do I have to sign up for a Google account to change the preferences?

It's been requested so many times - right from the beginning when it was only about 45 clicks, through to now when last time it took me about 162.

If you're going to reject any, you're going to reject all, so why not make it easy - and why not when your members start objecting, rather than months later?

It's not that big a deal to change, and there is no reason to wait for other changes. Other than from a disregard for members and a prioritisation of those who seek to use data. After all it's not exactly clear that you have to set 'vendor preferences' is it?

@Katy75 I'm another who rejects cookies; and had to press over 140 buttons this morning.
Where is the "reject all" button that was promised on Justine's thread on 02 November?

Currently, I have to wade through all the reject cookies buttons, weekly.
It's not on MN, and it's not a feature on any other site that I use.

So, now I refuse to use MN on my phone or tablet which is just as well, as I am addicted enough.

Many of the cookies are quite intrusive, tracking across devices and seeking permission for up to 500weeks!
Bonkers.

@MNHQ can you advise please?

i’ve just been asked again, after only a week… please can mumsnet explain why I am asked so often? is it because I reject cookies? I don’t think this can be happening to all users or I am sure there would be more comment. I have not adjusted anything on my phone.

Just posted on the other thread as I’ve had yet another request to do this, too. It’s getting seriously annoying now. Again.

Same here

I guess this might hopefully be the last time if the fix is January

I’ve just had to make the selections again, although I can see from my post about that I was last asked to do it only on 7th Dec…. Please can mumsnet explain why this is? I have not adjusted any settings on my phone.

It's something I've been complaining about for months. It's apparently going to be fixed in the new year. In the meantime, I'm going to clear cookies religiously.