Disable cookies notice?

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  southplainfieldlibrary · Member · Jun 6, 2018 at 1:04 pm

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  Recently I enabled the cookies notice on our wordpress site. Now I decided I don’t want it, but I can’t find where to disable it! Please help.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 7, 2018 at 7:47 am

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  Hi there,

  The cookie notice cannot be disabled on free sites, and the widget to add it is no longer available on free sites either. We show advertising on all free sites, so we show that widget to get consent for ad-tracking cookies we place in browsers of visitors to your site.

  If you don’t want the notice to show you can upgrade to any of our paid plans. That will remove advertising from the site, meaning the notice will no longer be necessary for that.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookie-widget/

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  southplainfieldlibrary · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 11:45 am

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  But the cookie notice never appeared on our page until I clicked a box somewhere in admin to enable it, just in the past week or two. How is it possible that there is no way to disable it?

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  fstat · Staff · Jun 7, 2018 at 1:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  There used to be a widget available for sites on the Free plan, but now the widget is no longer available as the privacy banner is enabled by default on all free sites for the reasons @kokkieh already explained to you.

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  southplainfieldlibrary · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 1:11 pm

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  But as I said, it didn’t appear until I enabled it just recently. Did this just become a default in the past week or so?

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 7, 2018 at 3:45 pm

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  Yes, this was a recent change.

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  southplainfieldlibrary · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 5:52 pm

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  Thanks.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 7, 2018 at 8:48 pm

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  No problem :)