doc.qt.io Browser Cookies

Psnarf

When using Qt Creator, I keep a browser window open with tabs for each of the classes with which I'm working as I'm new at this and need the references. I noticed that each tab under doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes and each of the class pages has a black bar at the bottom of the page demanding some sort of cookie consent. Yet when I check the cookies, I already have qt.io and www.qt.io cookies. I have to click the Continue button to clear the intrusive footer.

I usually go straight to the classes.html page. Is there a site that I'm supposed to visit first to pick up the missing cookies? Why does each class demand the existence of the same cookies?

SGaist

Hi,

What web browser are you using ?
On what OS ?

Psnarf

@SGaist

Firefox.
Linux.

Psnarf

@SGaist
Chromium.
Linux.

"We bake cookies in your browser for a better experience. Using this site means that you consent. Read more"

Read more is a link to the terms-conditions page.

SGaist

What version of Firefox and Chromium ?
Through which distribution ?

Psnarf

@SGaist
Firefox 74.0 (64-bit)
No distribution, download current from
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
extract the bzipped tarball, mv firefox /usr/lib64/
Why does the browser version affect the cookies? If I click the black footer, subsequent class pages do not contain the footer. If I ignore the footer on doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes.html, subsequent class pages contain the black footer. Something to do with google?
www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js?

These html elements have nothing to do with which browser or which version:

JKSH

@Psnarf said in doc.qt.io Browser Cookies:

When using Qt Creator, I keep a browser window open with tabs for each of the classes with which I'm working as I'm new at this and need the references. I noticed that each tab under doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes and each of the class pages has a black bar at the bottom of the page demanding some sort of cookie consent.

If I go straight to https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes.html from a new browser, I see the Cookies bar. After I click "accept", the bar disappears. The bar never re-appears for any other doc page that I visit on that browser session.

Happens on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge (Windows).

Is you browser configured to block cookies?

Yet when I check the cookies, I already have qt.io and www.qt.io cookies. I have to click the Continue button to clear the intrusive footer.

I have cookies for:

I presume your browser is blocking cookies from doc.qt.io.

JKSH

@Psnarf said in doc.qt.io Browser Cookies:

When using Qt Creator, I keep a browser window open with tabs for each of the classes with which I'm working as I'm new at this and need the references.

By the way, you might find this useful for searching the docs: https://forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

(Disclaimer: This is a shameless self-promotion)

Psnarf

@JKSH
Browser not blocking cookies from qt.io, or doc.qt.io. Privacy Badger does label google-analytics as a tracking site, however. I'm sure you have your reasons for going over to the dark side. Google follows you everywhere, looking over your shoulder, recording everything you do. They have to pay me a lot of money before I give them information they then sell to target-marketing companies. I've been using the net since the early 90's, when google was a graduate student research project. Stealing information for sale to advertisers just to get rich is not a smart business model, yet nobody cares, even when google search manipulates the search results according to their personal agenda. But I digress.

Psnarf

@JKSH said in doc.qt.io Browser Cookies:

@Psnarf said in doc.qt.io Browser Cookies:

When using Qt Creator, I keep a browser window open with tabs for each of the classes with which I'm working as I'm new at this and need the references.

By the way, you might find this useful for searching the docs: https://forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

(Disclaimer: This is a shameless self-promotion)

Thanks for the tip. That's just ducky. I appreciate the link!
(I'd rather not use the Google search tab at the top left of the doc pages. )

SGaist

@Psnarf said in doc.qt.io Browser Cookies:

@JKSH
Browser not blocking cookies from qt.io, or doc.qt.io. Privacy Badger does label google-analytics as a tracking site, however. I'm sure you have your reasons for going over to the dark side. Google follows you everywhere, looking over your shoulder, recording everything you do. They have to pay me a lot of money before I give them information they then sell to target-marketing companies. I've been using the net since the early 90's, when google was a graduate student research project. Stealing information for sale to advertisers just to get rich is not a smart business model, yet nobody cares, even when google search manipulates the search results according to their personal agenda. But I digress.

Hi,

As the old saying says: "you are barking at the wrong tree". We have nothing to do with that as we are just volunteers who are answering questions here. If you would like to have your opinions heard with regard to tracking on the documentation, you should contact the Qt Company.