🍪 Cookie Consent

[Helter]

🍪 Cookie Consent
Introduction:
In response to evolving privacy standards and regional regulations like GDPR, phpBB2x now supports a native Cookie Consent feature. This enhancement brings modern transparency to legacy platforms without compromising historical structure or user experience.
Purpose:
The Cookie Consent module informs users about cookie usage and allows them to acknowledge or decline non-essential cookies.
Benefits:
- ✅ Legal Compliance: Aligns phpBB2x with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy frameworks.
- 🔒 User Trust: Builds transparency by clearly communicating cookie behavior.
- 🧩 Modular Design: Fully ACP-toggled and database-driven—no hardcoded logic.
- 🌐 Translatable UI: All language variables scoped for regional adaptation.

[DjPorkchop]

My copy of Firefox is stuck on that consent deal. THe screen Turns transparent grey and that is as far as I can go. I can see the website but not interact. Brave and Chrome allow me to login. I uninstalled and cleaned my registry of Firefox as well and did a 100% clean install just in case and I still can not login with FF at all.

[Helter]

The grey is the modal background and the accept/decline buttons should appear over the top of it. I am on regular firefox right now. Im wondering if possibly a pop up blocker is stopping the buttons? try deleting all integramod cookies.

*edit.. I think this is my fault with cookie settings. i had
cookie domain: integramod.com
cookie path: /forum/

it should be

cookie domain: .integramod.com
cookie path: /


I asked AI and this was the answer

🍪 Correct Cookie Settings for Your Case
Since your forum is served from http://www.integramod.com/forum/:
- Cookie domain:
Use .integramod.com (with the leading dot).
• This covers both http://www.integramod.com and any other subdomains you might use in the future.
• If you set it to integramod.com (no dot), Firefox may reject cookies when users come in via http://www.integramod.com, which is likely why the consent modal hangs for some.

- Cookie path:
Set to /.
• Even though your forum is under /forum/, using / ensures cookies are valid site‑wide.
• If you restrict it to /forum/, you can run into odd session or modal issues if scripts reference root paths.


- Cookie secure:
• Enable only if your site forces HTTPS.
• If you’re still serving over plain HTTP, leave it disabled.

- Cookie name:
• Pick something unique, e.g. im3_cookie.
• Avoid generic names like phpbb3 to prevent conflicts if you run multiple boards


⚠️ Why This Matters
Firefox is stricter about cookie scope than Chrome/Edge. If your cookie domain doesn’t match exactly (e.g. missing the leading dot, or mismatched path), Firefox may refuse to set or read the cookie. That breaks the logic in IM3’s cookie consent modal, leaving users stuck without the accept/decline buttons.

[DjPorkchop]

Well, it just happned to me again lol The consent / buttons do pop up for a quick second and then it goes away and switches to the modal background. Last time I tried a fresh install of FF. Let me try to delete cookies and all again and see how it goes. Im on Chrome as we speak.

[DjPorkchop]

Surfshark VPN. I forgot i had that enabled in my FF. Disabled it and Cookie Consent worked as expected and let me login.

[Helter]

Security is a fine line between access and blocked lol

[DjPorkchop]

Security is a fine line between access and blocked lol

Facts!