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I did read the TOS, but I have cookies disabled so it still said NO. I suspect that most of the people who do read the TOS probably also have cookies disabled, and therefore also were not counted.

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That's very strange. It doesn't use cookies at all. I know because I built it :-)

How unusual. I did follow the link from the TOS to the application.

Would you like me to try again/do anything else to help debug?

Edit: turning on noprocrast because I have work to get done. I'll check back in an hour or so.

That would be great actually. I've enabled debug mode. Add ?debug to the end of the url to get a peak under the engine. So:

https://www.hownormalami.eu/?debug

I went and took another look, it turns out it did work properly, it was just that I read the UI wrong the first time.

Sorry for the false alarm, I should've done better checking first.

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Scratch that.

I was able to reproduce the error, it happens when you open the "Terms and Conditions" in a new tab and then click through to the app from there.

Ah, so that's it! Thanks!

Can confirm.

I read the TOS too. I have first party cookies enabled, but I also said no to agreeing to include my data in the dataset. I suspect there's a selection bias of one kind of other in the TOS piece. Probably correlates with other fields too!

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