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Unfortunately I can't see your web site as it does not work without sending cookies to Google. Please implement the site with only needed cookies.

NB this means that your site cannot be used in Europe,

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If you have time, could you clarify how you can tell that? I just opened it in Europe and the blurb seems to pass “these cookies are for internal self-improvement of the product only” (see below). Is your problem that google is managing the analytics so could be spying, or that the stated use isn’t essential? I guess my assumption was that “non-essential” meant “built for the purposes of 3P advertising”

  We use cookies to recognize your repeated visits and preferences, as well as to measure the effectiveness of our documentation and whether users find what they're searching for. With your consent, you're helping us to make our documentation better.

Cannot used legally.

Third party cookies aren't illegal in Europe.

Undeniable Google Analytics is.

But only for necessary things - the purposes that you can Google Analytics are never necessary to the running of your site.

But are these third party…? Maybe I’m just way behind. If you use cookies to track usage of your site, isn’t that kinda second party?

No. The web site and the user are the first two parties. They have a relationship.

Third parties are parties who do not have a direct relationship with both parties.

Non non essential means to make the web site work for the user.

Getting information about home many hits the web site has or how it performs are not essential uses of cookies.

preferences are not essential as you can just use the default.

i usually accept cookies for Preferenceis but not for measurement and not for any sort of advertising.

You can opt out by clicking Manage settings and then uncheck the green tick. I just realized I can enable reject button as well[1], should be available soon.

1: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/ensuring-d...

Thanks for adding the reject button.

The way of deselecting is very unusual way to do that. The icons just do not suggest that you can unselect them.

I and others as shown by the upvotes did not realise that.

You should split them by functionality. Having to choose by source first is odd - I have seen sites with 10s of providers - I just never use them)

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