Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Trouble Commenting on the Blog

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If you’ve been having trouble commenting on the blog using your Google account, as I have, it may be because of your cookie settings. From Blogger’s help files:

Blogger uses third-party cookies so you can comment from your Google Account. If third-party cookies are disabled on your browser, you may not be able to comment on blog posts while you’re signed in. You can still comment anonymously, or with a name and URL.

In Chrome, which stats say most of you are using to read this, you can enable third-party cookies by going to Settings > Privacy and security and then select either Allow all cookies or Block third-party cookies in Incognito. 


If you don’t want to allow any third-party cookies, you should still be able to comment by choosing Comment as Name/URL in the commenting dropdown. 

If this works for you, could you leave a comment and let me know?

As a final word, please keep your comments on topic

7 comments

  1. Timothy Joseph8/30/2022 1:32 pm

    Just used Name😎

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  2. Maurice A. Robinson8/30/2022 3:43 pm

    Although I never changed any settings that previously worked, I now get the message "Unable to sign in to comment. Please check your browser configurations to allow sign-in. Learn more. You can still comment anonymously or with name and URL."

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    1. Maurice, that means your browser is blocking third-party cookies. See above for how to turn that off—if you want to.

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  3. Alexander Thomson8/30/2022 4:42 pm

    What is the point of commenting if one’s comments are going to be censored?

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  4. Thanks for the heads up. I had that problem when I tried to post my on topic questions about Brent Nongbri and his article. I just used the Comment as Name/URL dropdown instead.

    I am using Brave rather than Chrome, but its settings and options appear to be the same as Chrome. I am sure your recommendations will work, but since I seldom comment here, I will just continue to use the Comment as Name/URL function.

    Thanks again.

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  5. Using Chrome, no problem... But I previously used only Samsung Internet, and never had the problems until recently, with no changes to setting involved. Go figure.

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  6. Alan Bunning8/31/2022 6:34 pm

    Trying to comment now to see if it works.

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