Ad Astra Per Aspera

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

To fix this, you click “Add tracking info” for every payment that has that. When you do, you’ll select “Order Processed / Service Rendered” which is the option that tells PayPal you aren’t shipping anything. 

Hey y’all! I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a while everything’s been super busy and a lil hectic ahah! I’m pretty short of funds right now and I need food and gas for me and my roommate. I’m still settin up everything on Commiss.io but I do have these SD commissions I can do pretty easy and fast! 

If you can’t spend enough for a commission then maybe try.. buying me a Kofi?

Hey y’all! I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a while everything’s been super busy and a lil hectic ahah! I’m pretty short of funds right now and I need food and gas for me and my roommate. I’m still settin up everything on Commiss.io but I do have these SD commissions I can do pretty easy and fast! 

If you can’t spend enough for a commission then maybe try.. buying me a Kofi?