Can't 'like' or 'subscribe' to another WP site!!!!!
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I really find this funny. That’s not ha, ha funny either.
Someone is preventing me from getting around everywhere. I’m trying to like posts on, and subscribe to, Winter Oak, a social justice organization whose website happens to be on WordPress. I’m guessing that they are on WordPress dot net, whereas I am on WordPress dot come. Still…
I found one setting that, for some strange reason, was checked. It was something along the lines of Do I want other sites I’m subscribed to to be able to send me emails? I’ve been going back and forth with Winter Oak, but we can’t figure it out. I keep getting a message that tells me that my email address ((email visible only to moderators and staff)) isn’t valid. I also use Yandex and when I tried with that I got the same message.
Is WordPress, which partners with Google (I’m NOT ranting here before you get the idea to delete this), doing this to me? If so, please just tell me.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The redacted email address was NOT an email address. PLEASE let me state my case. A O L is my email service and I also use Yandex.
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Hi there,
Up until ten hours ago your account was blocking all subscription emails from WordPress.com. That is why you were not able to subscribe to the site via email. Based on the logs for your account, you, or someone logged into your account, changed that setting on 28 November 2018.
Now that you’ve unblocked us, you should be able to subscribe the site.
Liking posts have nothing to do with that setting. If you’re unable to like posts, it most likely points to an issue with your browser.
What browser, including version number, are you using? And can you give a link to the specific post you’re trying to like?
Please clear your browser cache, make sure your browser allows third party cookies, and that JavaScript is enabled, as the post like feature relies on both those things to work. If you’re using any ad-blocker or anti-tracking plugins, also temporarily disable those to see if it makes any difference – those browser add-ons typically work by just blanket-blocking cookies and JavaScript, and can cause features like the Like button to stop working.
If none of that makes any difference, please check if you’re able to like the post if you log in using a completely different browser, or using private/incognito mode.
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Thanks. The website I’m looking at specifically (which isn’t the only one where I don’t have full functionality when it comes to subscribing and liking and so on) is called Winter Oak. Here’s one article I still can’t ‘like’: “Rob Hopkins: transition to what?”
I would not have turned off that setting that you indicate. I found it and turned it on at the time you noted it was turned on. Nothing surprises me in the current heated up attack on the people – which the bovine thinks is love. The State and its allies and servants have lawlessness and deceit and violence on its side, clearly.
I use Pale Moon which I don’t know much about. I only know that it isn’t Mozilla. I abandoned Firefox when Mozilla proudly announced that it was jumping on the censorship (fact checking) bandwagon. Pale Moon is similar, ergo. I have the latest (28.16.0 64-bit). I also have Epic (80.2.3988.123 official build, 32-bit).
I tried the standard solutions: turn off av, adblocker, adding to whitelist. I also have, on Pale Moon, an add on called “Self-destructing cookies for Pale Moon.” I tried turning that off too, to no avail.
I allow third party cookies, even though my cookie destroyer kills them, but I can I can time that, or, as I noted, turn it off. There’s also a whitelist for that add on and I added Winter Oak to it.
One question I might ask you, as it may be relevant, is: Should I enable “Allow Third Party Tracking” in the self-destructing cookie add on that I use? It was not enabled. Tracking strikes me as a different thing than just allowing functionality for the session. Am I wrong about that? I REALLY don’t like the idea of tracking. There’s too much of that happening now and too much that they – the powers that shouldn’t be and won’t be for a lot longer – have planned for us because they are sooo concerned about our health and safety.
Thanks again. I appreciate the assistance.
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I should add that there’s a pop up that pops up and disappears too fast for me to even see what it is, although in my experience (where sometimes, after logging into WordPress), it’s often a WordPress log in. Usually, When I can capture that log in, and do log in, it makes no difference. But, as the pop up is so brief and doesn’t even seem to populate because of that, I can’t be sure.
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I just downloaded and tested with Ccleaner browser. I didn’t fiddle with any settings. I went to Winter Oak and the article about Rob Hopkins and attempted to like. This time the super fast pop up stuck. It was indeed a WordPress pop up. I logged in with it (Do I have to do mulitiple log ins to WP because this page was open and I’m logged in to WP in order to type this?) I was able to ‘like’ the article, for it said that I had, even though I didn’t see my website icon the way you normally do when you like something and if you have a blog.
What I really need before I switch everthing over to Ccleaner is what the problem was. Who moves when they find one mouse in their house?
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I didn’t think to test the ‘subscribe’ feature on Winter Oak with Ccleaner browser. That failed. Again, I get told that my email address is not a valid email address. That’s beginning to look, to me, like the problem is outside of my browsers.
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Hi there,
Can you please check the Like and Subscribe feature using one of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari)?
If it works, then you can use a Chromium-based browser that’s security focused. One that comes to mind is Brave.
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I have ZERO use for those browsers. (When I last used Firefox it was seriously messing up my computer. Even before learning about Mozilla’s choice to follow Google, I found that I just couldn’t use Firefox.) I want nothing to do with US government-fundedTor, which Brave uses (and I don’t care whether Tor is by default on or off). I suppose we could do what you suggest to test, but I am actually very, very leery of even downloading and using, once, any of those awful browsers. (Paranoia, in this case, is warrnted.) I don’t know whether there is a good (as in trustworthy) browser out there. But I know I want nothing to do with those browsers you listed. Sorry.
I tested my subscribe function on Jon Rappoport’s Blog. It worked fine. I usually don’t bother subscribing to sites I visit a lot because I’d end up with a zillion emails telling me to visit when I already do. As a blogger, I have a large collection of websites bookmarked. I will test a few more in the days ahead.
I think that with regard to Winter Oak, it’s on their end. But I don’t know.
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Uh huh.
Anyway, I’m back to seeing no notices on my own blog. The bell with the red dot doesn’t populate when I click it. The buried setting (Why would we want to be able to easily get at that?) that I found (I have no idea where) and turned on may have flipped off again, very mysteriously. If that’s being done to me, I’d be wasting a lot of time (a good thing from some people’s standpoint) searching for that setting every time I wanted to see what the bell is alerting me to. Fortunately, I have no need to know that.
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Could you clarify which hidden setting you’re referring to?
Also, with your permission, we could try “liking” that article from your account using a browser that is more standards compliant. That way we can confirm whether it’s a browse issue or something else.
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Perhaps you didn’t get me. I have NO idea which setting it was. Feel free to find it and move it to someplace on my blog where I can always get at it without searching. I want nothing to do with major search engines. I did close this discussion, but apparently that button, shown to me, isn’t ‘for’ me.
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OK. We’ll close it out. This is the only setting we can see that was changed recently:
> Now that you’ve unblocked us, you should be able to subscribe the site.
That’s here, at the bottom of the page:
https://wordpress.com/me/notifications/subscriptionsThere are other ways to reach that (through email links, for example) so you’ll want to be mindful if you’re forwarding the email to others.
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