Anyone visiting the site recently from a country in the European Union may have noticed one of those annoying ‘this site uses cookies’ bars at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n
These are popping up everywhere as a result of an EU law.\u00a0 I’ve tried to resist putting one on the site for as long as possible, as they are bloody annoying!<\/strong><\/p>\n Sadly yesterday my advertising provider (Google Adsense – who display all the adverts on the site) told me that I have to have one of these cookie warnings if I show their adverts.\u00a0 So the annoying bar has to be there \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n But I’ve tried to make it as unobtrusive as possible, and once you click the ‘got it’ button it should disappear for a year.<\/p>\n To be clear, nothing has changed with cookies on the site.\u00a0 I still use them to display the adverts, to check how many people visit the site, and to store user preferences.\u00a0 I don’t do anything untoward with them.\u00a0 It’s just this annoying EU law I have to comply with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone visiting the site recently from a country in the European Union may have noticed one of those annoying ‘this site uses cookies’ bars at the bottom of the screen. These are popping up everywhere as a result of an … Continue reading