Before you continue !!!!!

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 16:12

Anyone keep getting this from google.
I get it every few days despite me filling and saving the details.
Its extremely annoying to say the least. !!!! :mad:

Mockingbird · 21 Jul 2016 at 16:20

Getting what?

Google where? Website, one of the google apps, on PC or on smart phone?

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 16:22

The google search engine.

its this thing...

https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/before-you-continue-to-google/

It won't let me continue to search till I filled it out again.

Orcvader · 21 Jul 2016 at 16:57

What browser? It sounds like it's not properly remembering that you accepted it.

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 16:59

Im using firefox.

Orcvader · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:03

Are you browsing in incognito mode or normal?

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:06

Just normal mode.
Cookies are enabled.

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:12

It just started happening the past 2 months.
Before that it has been a year or so since I've seen the message.

jpaul · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:30

some good ammunition for google baiting -
you can just delete the google cookies and their stupid message goes away for another week or so, ( I need to look and see if someone already created a ff add-on for that. )
there is an add on to automatically get rid of this message in utube (just hit a button and overlay msg is gone)

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 17:35

Thanks Jpaul.

I will try deleting the cookies. I'm fed up will filling the damn thing out all the time. Its driving me insane.

Let me know if you find an addon.

I have never got the message in youtube. Just search..

jpaul · 21 Jul 2016 at 18:04

Also in the same vein this ff add-on .. glorious - it strips all the tracking off of the google search results links - so you go directly to the target - can you do that in Chrome

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 18:22

Thanks mate just installed that

joeyjojo · 21 Jul 2016 at 18:27

It's very odd this message. It was pestering me until recently as well, but only on my home PC and only when visiting Youtube. I don't think it's cookie based because I clear cookies on multiple machines regularly. But equally it doesn't seem to be linked to the Google account because my work machine never bothered me about it. Very weird.

If you click through though you should be able to set some stuff and dismiss it.

P.S. https://disconnect.me/ gives Google search results without the personalisation. Or use a purer search engine like https://duckduckgo.com/

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 18:32

Could it be malware or is it actually google?

I do click through and reset the options but when you've done it for the 100th time it gets really annoying.

I'll try alternative search engines but google is my fav...

Orcvader · 21 Jul 2016 at 20:19

If you have a Google account and stayed signed in, it won't pester you any more as it remembers your choice via account instead of per browser.

jpaul · 21 Jul 2016 at 21:22

sorry but who wants to stay signed into google, I am not going to unnecessarily disclose information about myself. I sign into google in a dedicated browser session where I want to access gmail, but in another browser session where I might be searching I do not.
(was it the yahoo accounts that were cracked ?, but if the same happens to google then your data maybe exposed)

You can click through and dismiss it yes, but I do not want to.

Same for utube, I am not signing in, the ff add on to get rid of the overlay screen (also works for pinterest ) is behindtheoverlay

.. end of my diatribe ....

JanM · 21 Jul 2016 at 21:23

jpaul said:
sorry but who wants to stay signed into google, I am not going to unnecessarily disclose information about myself. I sign into google in a dedicated browser session where I want to access gmail, but in another browser session where I might be searching I do not.
(was it the yahoo accounts that were cracked ?, but if the same happens to google then your data maybe exposed)

You can click through and dismiss it yes, but I do not want to.

Same for utube, I am not signing in, the ff add on to get rid of the overlay screen (also works for pinterest ) is behindtheoverlay

.. end of my diatribe ....

Hi

Orcvader, i don't have a google account but if I can't solve it via deleting cookies or getting a Firefox add on i'll have to sign up for one. However I'd like to aviod it if I can as i'm like jpaul.

Thanks jpaul for the link installing it now. fingers crossed.

andshrew · 21 Jul 2016 at 22:12

jpaul said:
sorry but who wants to stay signed into google, I am not going to unnecessarily disclose information about myself. I sign into google in a dedicated browser session where I want to access gmail, but in another browser session where I might be searching I do not.
(was it the yahoo accounts that were cracked ?, but if the same happens to google then your data maybe exposed)

You can click through and dismiss it yes, but I do not want to.

Same for utube, I am not signing in, the ff add on to get rid of the overlay screen (also works for pinterest ) is behindtheoverlay

.. end of my diatribe ....

I'm finding it amusing the lengths you're seemingly going to to avoid disclosing your information to Google... while simultaneous disclosing some of your most personal information to Google by using their services (eg. Gmail as your mail provider).

jpaul · 21 Jul 2016 at 23:04

agree google reads/parses your emails, so I am not going to put my medical history or cv (unencrypted) in an email - but as soon as you have set up a browser profile that you use for financial stuff say, you might as well split out browsing and searching too (terrorist cell strategy

)
.... they are also not really strenuous 'lengths' , compared to migrating environment from win7->win10 which is currently taking me man hours

... but this thread is not meant to be about me.

Orcvader · 21 Jul 2016 at 23:15

jpaul said:
sorry but who wants to stay signed into google

It was just a suggestion to stop the Google pop up from appearing. I switch between different browsers every now and then on different devices and it makes it easier for me.