Since Christmas, every time I go back into the tab of my own blog, I get a pop-up telling me to accept cookies. If I ignore it, the pop-up box remains on the screen.
This also happens when I go from the blog page into the admin page, or to the stats or media pages.
Why do I need to accept the cookies on my own blog when I am already logged in and blogging? I don’t recall this ever happening before. And if I accept them once, why does the warning keep appearing every time?
Like I said, just a thought.
beetleypete 
It seems WP is more and more a work in progress. But it’s not noted in the Apocalypsis of John. 😉 xx Michael
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There is always a new irritation from WordPress.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Grrr…
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I’m not getting angry about it, I just fail to understand why it happens. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well said!
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I tend to ignore it, but I’ve also noticed some people who’ve been commenting on my blog for years going into Spam. I wonder what’s up now.
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There is always something irritating in WordPress these days.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This happens to me too. I just accept the cookies.
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I do too, Stevie. But I still wonder why I have to do that when it is my own blog. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Maybe we all do, I don’t know.
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I don’t get it on my blogs, but I do see it on several blogs that I follow and even if I accept the cookies it pops up again when I visit. Not sure whether there is a connection with older themes.
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It might be the theme, as it is no longer available. I thought about changing it, but I have always liked the clean lines of Penscratch.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I have tried twice to contact the “Happiness Engineers”, WP’s tech support, about this very issue, but all I get is some mumbo jumbo from AI telling me that I have to install some plug-in or another. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr … the more they try to “improve” the system, the worse they make it!
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They are now Happiness Bots, so I stopped bothering to contact a machine.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This is one of their older irritations; long before other A.I. patterns emerged. Best to ignore the damn thing.
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True. There was a spate of this happening a year or so ago.
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It only started for me in December. I was just curious as to why.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I suspect WP has a person whose job it is to create these glitches. Warmest regards, Ed
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Or someone who works there is having fun on his own! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Glitches again Pete? It never stop, does it?
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Sadly true, Arlene.
Best wishes, Pete.
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wp is making me crazy as usual. for ten years, I’ve been easily able to post my blog on my Facebook account, it did so automatically when I posted. then, it decided that I have to do it separately, so I did that. now, it often won’t post the picture with the text, it’s kind of hit or miss.
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Yes, same with Twitter. I always forget to go back in and post on Twitter. WP certainly puts us through the mill!
Best wishes, Pete.
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they don’t make it easy for us, the little people )
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Quite simply, cookies are tracking attachments left on the hosts website – apparently “to give you a better experience”. In this modern world we accept their lies. What annoys when basic govt dept pages now demand you accept cookies. Why?
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I know how they use cookies, but I was surprised that WP keeps asking me to approve them on my own blog. After all, they have access to all my blog activity if they wish to look at it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve not come across that one…yet.
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Might just be me. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Interesting, Pete. I’ve noticed changes that I don’t understand (not about cookies, but about responding to readers I follow –or should I say, NOT being able to respond). I have thoughts about all the changes. I get it. Hope you are all well! Take care.
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The constant fiddling around by WordPress is infuriating. But I am detrmined not to let them beat me, Karla. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes! I’m with you, Pete! 😊
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I have no answers for you….I deal with the same thing. chuq
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I didn’t expect answers, just thinking out loud, chuq. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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The more improvements WP makes the worse it seems to get chuq
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So annoying. Just like they constantly ask to to log in. And re log in…Sigh
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I stopped logging out a long time ago, Marina. I just leave myself logged in to WP when I close down my PC.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I never log out, but WP keeps logging me out anyway.
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They sometimes make me confirm my password until I can continue. Then they send a code to my phone that I have to enter. That happens around three times a year.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Heaven preserve us from all the ‘improvements’ wordpress keep making. We seem to progress only backwards. Hugs
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This isn’t as annoying as most of their changes, David, but I completely fail to understand why it should be required on our own blogs.
Best wishes, Pete.
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And now, even Santa Claus is balking at accepting cookies. He does go for the milk, though.
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I don’t blame him! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Good one!
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