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ALL advertising matters MUST be directed to Tripod Lycos, and NOT
The Mayfair Witches Parlor. It is Tripod Lycos who runs all advertising and they are responsible for obtaining required user
consent before collecting it for advertising purposes.
The Parlor collects user consent for Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and uses Consent Manager to make sure all Parlor
guests can give informed consent before allowing their data to be collected for traffic analysis.
However, this website specifically does NOT run advertising of any kind and is not a business. Please do NOT
contact me regarding advertising on this website. DO NOT attempt to force code onto my website without my permission
or tamper with code on this website to run unauthorized advertising. Unless, of course, you'd like me to literally make a
federal issue out of this.
Thank you.
What's a Dammit Doll?
This.
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As technology advances, so do new and ever-complex annoyances. Despite our best efforts, we can't always be sure everything
we do on our end as website owners will have the desired effect--a much better user experience. Even if it's something as
basic as getting undesired boxes and images and videos and clickbait and invasions of privacy and...
Some of my hidden goodies on the Parlor are rules in the headers that prohibit anything not directly installed on the site
or otherwise authorized by me from running. They can also protect websites from becoming befouled by some mystery thing injecting
codes that cause mayhem immediately upon firing. Don't MAKE me fire up Google Chrome again! It had a FIELD DAY plowing through
trash left in the Parlor by uninvited guests. And it's been going bonkers this morning with something else.
Javascript.
When there is a small, remaining handful of code like that, and you do NOT want those Javascript tags to fire since they immediately
invite all their friends over, well, that can be a problem. If I could go in and just remove the code, I would--Tripod, why,
WHY must you torment me this waaaaaaay?!
Browsers are always having to keep up with keeping nasty things from entering our online domiciles, but sometimes even that
isn't 100%. Let me give an overview of just how VERY FEW cookies are in the Parlor Cookie Jar.
I had to stop the cookie consent banner as it seemed to be causing more problems than it solved by letting things in to set
cookies whereever they pleased. What that means here is you're not likely to find a cookie with cmp anywhere in it on or
from this website. I do have Google Tag Manager but my headers aren't crazy about it. No matter; the only reason it has
a Google Analytics UA tag in it is because the UA tag is stuck on my site but no longer collecting data. The idea is to make
sure it stays that way.
UA is Universal Analytics, the Google Analytics tag before GA4 (no longer on the Parlor, either, due to possible tampering).
If I understand the timeline correctly, if you have a website and you have a UA tag on it, it's not doing anything these
days. Google phased it out as it phased in the GA4 tag. Kinda like...asynchronous javascript.
Which, by the way, is what kind of tag Google Tag Manager basically is. It doesn't drop cookies on its own; it does, however,
manage tags that do. However, since there is content security, it's not likely to allow things in the Tag Manager to fire.
The headers also have rules that prevent synchronous and inline scripts, so that kind of Javascript is stopped whether it's
installed on the Parlor or not.
However, there are a few scripts (Javascript, you understand) of the user data protection nightmare variety and the user experience
nightmare variety that get crafty. THIS, everyone, is where I had to screw up my courage and suggest a handy plugin.
The NoScript plugin (which I have on Firefox and Chrome) is very handy when you need to see quickly if a web page has javascript
code on it. If the javascript is installed directly in the website code, NoScript will show it there (firing or not, but
usually firing). This little gem allows you to shut off any javascript you do not wish to have running during your visit
to the Parlor (or elsewhere, for that matter).
Very simply put, if you are paying a visit to the Parlor and need to know what script is necessary for the website to work
and what is not. They will appear in the list on any given page of the Parlor as Tripod and as Lycos. They appear separately.
Turn on one, the other, or both, and the site will work.
Note that if you go to any page of the Parlor that has a dropdown menu of content, like the section of initial thoughts on
the AMC series, they won't expand unless Tripod is enabled in NoScript.
Those are the necessary scripts. The rest are entirely up to you. It's one weird way of letting me know what you consent
to and what you don't, I guess. Truthfully, though, there isn't much beyond those two that are absolutely necessary.
Just because...the Parlor decided several months ago to no longer use iframes on the site (these have their own risks). Instead
of embedding things like YouTube videos, I provide a link. Actual links anywhere around the Parlor are https, or they are
text only. This, along with any other embedded social media content, was a decision made for security reasons. Not because
social media platforms did anything wrong, necessarily. It's to keep the Parlor safe and make sure platforms are not being
exposed to any legal liability should something go haywire--and it WILL go haywire.
This was also what led to the creation of Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches. It is meant as a sort of "catch-all" page gathering
the Parlor's social media, blog and other things in one place while keeping this site as safe as possible. I have never really
pushed a product like this before, but after a positively DISASTROUS 2024 where I dealt with almost nothing BUT backstage
dumpster fires like what I've described...
I think I get a pass for this one. At least I'm not talking about an ad blocker! (But if you want me to...)
If you have the NoScript browser extension, which is free on Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, and you do not want
to have all two of my own things running, this website will continue to function anyway. Some of the features, like the menus
mentioned above, will need you to have Tripod turned on in NoScript. You can even set it to temp trusted so it will not stay
on once you've finished the midnight fridge raid in the Mayfair kitchen.
Having both Tripod and Lycos switched on in NoScript is not necessary; you can just use one of them and the site will still
work. It's largely HTML with some pretty interesting CSS here and there. Hopefully, that will make your visit as hassle-free
as possible.
I should get one of those extensions that makes quick tutorials for things like this. Let me just get my laptop and my Dammit
Doll...
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