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Fixing Cookie Issues for Seamless Browsing

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Cookies: Essential for Website Functionality - This podcast episode discusses the importance of cookies for websites to deliver full features, content, and personalization. It explains how blocking cookies can lock users out of key elements and provides simple fixes for common browsers and apps to enable cookies. The episode also addresses the issue of the Facebook apps in-app browser ignoring set cookies and offers a workaround by switching to external links. It highlights the frustration users face when sites feel broken without cookies and explains how privacy tools blocking trackers can interfere with basic functions like remembering preferences. The episode provides step-by-step instructions for enabling cookies in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile Safari.

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Fixing Cookie Issues for Seamless Browsing

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Sydney News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Fixing Cookie Issues for Seamless Browsing. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

0:00from the streets of Sydney to the world. This is Sydney News Today. Many websites rely on cookies to deliver full features, content, and personalization. Blocking them can lock you out of key elements. Common browsers and apps have simple fixes to enable cookies and restore access. A glitch in the Facebook apps in app browser sometimes ignores their cookies. Developers expect a patch soon, but for now switch to external links. Go to settings, pick app settings, and turn on links open externally to use your device's default browser. Users often run into frustration when sites feel broken without cookies, missing log-ins or custom views. This stems from privacy tools blocking trackers, but sites need them for basic functions like remembering preferences. For Firefox, open tools, then options, privacy, and custom history settings. Check except cookies from sites in third-party ones, set to keep until they expire, then hit OK. Chrome users, head to tools, options, privacy, content settings, allow local data, unblock third-party cookies, skip clearing them, and close out.

1:09On mobile Safari for iPhone or iPad, tap settings, Safari, except cookies from visited sites, then restart the app by holding the home button 5. Seconds. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partner. Some people meditate. I just lay down and press play. S-O-L-I-S-O-L-P-Lo.com.

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