Webmasters Corner

Hello everybody today i would like to discuss a tool that many newer browsers have implemented that can help you if you are having troubles logging into a certain site or going to vote on our current open vote. This tool is called Privacy mode. This mode works by denying cookies from a website and denying read requests to that sites cookie which can help you log in. A little background on cookies first: Whenever you go to a site that has some sort of login system a text file containing the connection info and various pieces of data is stored in your web browser, This is a cookie. Under normal use these can be beneficial like when you check remember me that cookie gets that piece of data and the next time you go to that site you will still be logged in. Unfortunately this can also work against you at times like with our voting site if something happens to the connection and you haven’t voted the cookie doesn’t know this but it does know that you have been which results in a redirect to the results page. Privacy mode fixes this by denying all cookie requests for the duration of the mode ( till you close the Privacy window ). So as you can see this mode will help most instances of being unable to login or participate on sites such as the voting system.

 

The Privacy mode is named differently on most major browsers:

 

Internet Explorer – In Private Browsing the window is activated by pressing ctrl shift p

 

Google Chrome – Incognito the window is activated by ctrl shift n

 

Apple Safari – Private Browsing the window is opened from the safari menu

 

Mozilla Firefox – Private Browsing the window is opened by pressing ctrl shift p

 

With these modes if you find that the voting link given by the vote box doesn’t work copy and paste that link into the Privacy Mode window and it should work though there are instances where it wont. In any case if you have trouble voting please IM Tmzasz Luminos inworld or if im offline drop me a notecard and i will help you as soon as i can. Every vote matters 🙂

 

Until next time.

 

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