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    the-mad-duchess

    Donโ€™t just accept the new Terms of Service

    Tumblrโ€™s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. Thereโ€™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 โ€˜OKโ€™ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If youโ€™re like me, youโ€™re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

    My tip? DONT. Instead click on โ€˜Manage Optionsโ€™ right next to it:

    Now youโ€™ll see this page:

    Still pretty harmless, right? That โ€˜Acceptโ€™ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like โ€˜Manage Optionsโ€™ or something in english) and youโ€™ll get to this page:

    Now thatโ€™s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to โ€˜offโ€™, because Iโ€™m jealously guarding my personal information and donโ€™t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like weโ€™re done! But wait: Thereโ€™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 youโ€™d just clicked โ€˜OKโ€™ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. Theyโ€™re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesnโ€™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)

    expatgirl

    I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

    thelittleblackfox

    Youโ€™ll also want to check your settings after, as the first time I unchecked it didnโ€™t save

    eatingcroutons

    Hereโ€™s how to find these settings if you clickedย โ€˜OKโ€™:

    On a desktop, go toย https://www.tumblr.com/settings/privacy. If you are accessing Tumblr from a European IP address, you will see the following:

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    Note that theย โ€˜Cookie Consentโ€™ 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**, clickย โ€˜Doneโ€™, but DO NOT CLICKย โ€˜OKโ€™ AFTERWARDS.

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    Clicking OK will RESET ALL THE TOGGLES YOU JUST UNCHECKED. Instead go back toย โ€˜Manage optionsโ€™ again:

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    โ€ฆwhere you can confirm that everything is still unchecked. From the โ€˜Manage optionsโ€™ page, clickย โ€˜Acceptโ€™ to accept the new agreement with your preferences (hopefully???) saved.

    ** A handy tip from @saurosuchus-ostraviensii:ย โ€œIf youโ€™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 donโ€™t want to click your hand into oblivion.โ€