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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Anyone Willing to Advise on This One?

Dear visitors,

The recent Blogger's update regarding their content warning with double check when accessing 'sensitive content' blogs [which only proves to be another coding mess on their part] feels yet like another reason for me to leave and put my eggs in another basket.

To put it short: I am seriously considering moving the blog onto another platform.
One that would be:
    - as much easy in terms of posting for someone who doesn't need/want to code [ergo: me], which would mean a full WISIWIG [what you see is what you get] interface,
    - adult content friendly, obviously, without the hassle of double-triple-consent/proove-me-you're-an-adult/what's-your-credit-card/etc,
    - accessible from anywhere without subscription - I've tried social network-like sites like Sharesome, but I strongly believe that you, my visitors, do not need to adhere to a community to pay me a visit,

I’d be willing to pay a few tens of bucks a year, as long as it meets the simple requirements above AND it would remain pay-free for full access to my visitors, like any other blog should.

I was thinking of WordPress, which at the time I subscribed to still requested some coding skills. They might have gone more user friendly since then.

So my question to you guys is: do you have any idea as to where I could turn to?
Do you know of a platform where I could move W&R to whilst getting rid of Google's contingencies?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Laurent

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Google's Blogger has been at it again

 A few days ago Google made a slight update to its Blogger's 'Sensitive content warning' page, requiring kind of a double agreement click through a 'Connect to confirm your age' button. But, as usual when it comes to most Blogger's new features, it's bugged and often sucks.

First page is as usual:


By clicking on 'Continue with the content' it goes grayed out like that:


That's where you should also see the following confirmation box:


And by clicking on 'Connect' (if you own a Google account) it then lets you access the actual blog and its full content.

Except most of the time it does not because the confirmation box is nowhere to be seen, though it is.

Blogger's code is so dumbly wrote that most of the time you'd have to scroll down through the blank page in order to reach that button - that is if you do not miss it by scrolling too fast...

Advice: after clicking on the first consent (screenshot #1) just hit the enter key and you're done, the blog content will be yours to enjoy.

P.S.: The first time this happened to me I switched from Safari browser (Mac) to Firefox in order to visit the blog, and all went well. Which led me to think that Google's apprentice coders are not even graduated enough to code their gibberish according to whatever browser is used by the enduser... appalling.

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