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I donated, yet I still see the annoying banner. How do I make it go away?

• JoeAltmaier 14y ago
  That's my top pet peeve. Pay and still see ads? Removes a major incentive. I rememer long ago RealAudio introduced a constantly-rotating ad in their player. Paid for it -the ads remained! Had to ask for my money back, deinstall, never used it again.
  • tommorris 14y ago
    So, there's a reason for it. Namely, the way to implement that would require setting a cookie to say you've donated. And it'd be a cross-site cookie (because the payment is done on the Foundation site, not on Wikipedia). The Privacy Policy is pretty strong on things like that: we don't set cookies unless there's a need to. Fortunately, you just click the 'X' button in the top-right hand corner and the banner will go away for the rest of the fundraiser... whether you've donated or not.
    • Jtsummers 14y ago
      Can the donations be tied to a user account? What prevents checking 'user donated within 6 months'? (Assuming people can and do provide the information and remain logged in)
      • brokenparser 14y ago
        The donation page is on wikimedia.org and there's no mechanism to transfer your cookie, so good luck with that.
      • tommorris 14y ago
        No, that kind of information isn't stored because of the privacy policy.