I wanted to take a moment to thank/appreciate GOG for updating the way cookies are used on this site. Anything like this which gives users greater control over their data privacy is absolutely appreciated. I use tracker blockers on all of my browsers so the use of marketing/preference/tracking cookies didn't bother me too much but the fact that GOG made it easier to disable ones we don't want is a nice gesture.

Probably due to GDPR, and they're quite late about it.
Btw, the Cookie Declaration link doesn't work for me, it doesn't do anything..

You have to go to the homepage. Some site elements, like the search dropdown, are broken on forum pages.

I don't think it's the GDPR.
A lot of sites have been shoving that 'Cookie Declaration' garbage in users faces of late.
Sure, it's a lot more fine grained than the old GDPR 'Accept all our cookies' checkbox overlays, but the sheer tediousness of NEEDING to manually check just what cookies are turned on or off, and there's ALWAYS some that they refuse to let you turn off, gets exceedingly tiresome to have to deal with.

I always find it funny when the words data privacy is used by US. Really gave me a laugh for the day.

In terms of cookie policy, it’s a complete joke, like all these policies. Every web page you go to now has a “cookie policy” page, set of pages, lists, or some other convoluted method of boring, confusing, downright misleading you into allowing the like the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon, to scrape every tiny bit of data they can. That is why this came up in the first place, US mega companies who think privacy only applies to their tax returns (heads up, for outside US it’s 0%, actually more like -5% once business relief and other incentives are included). It was GDPR, which is a policy which may have been somewhat effective if released in the 90s. Unfortunately as with anything, the millions of lawyer teams that companies have to get around anything put out means these rules once again only disrupt users, Google and such like trample on across the world.

You can clear cache and cookies, have no script, disconnect from the net it doesn’t matter, they will scan everything regardless be it from smart devices or phones, or drones/Google world mapping. Heck there was a thread here just the other day where someone showed all the different trackers that GOG uses from the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon.

Twitter too.

Thank you for pointing this out. I was wondering what the issue was since it also didn't work without browser add-ons, or in a different browser. Others had reported the same.

Thank you, even it still doesn't work for me.
I only use Firefox, so I wonder if it's an issue for this browser.
I also tried to temporarly disable the privacy addons, but nothing changed.

I just read the email that announced this and based on what it says, I don't find this action to be all that commendable.

An actually commendable action on GOG's part would be an email that said something to the effect of: we have never used unnecessary cookies and never will. But it doesn't say that.

Instead, what it actually says is: That begs the questions:

1. Why, exactly, does/has been GOG using "unnecessary" cookies?

2. Why doesn't GOG automatically disable "unnecessary" cookies by default, rather than requiring the customer to "opt-in" to disabling them?

Same. Ive tried in a couple of browsers (including on my phone) and nothing.

It works for me in Firefox 87 as well, so that's probably not it. One thing you could try is accessing it through an incognito tab, if it works that way, then the issue is probably the state your cookies are currently in. I've seen some sites misbehaving before because their cookies had values that they were not expecting.

lol

you should have been there yesterday, like an angry mob without consent or content the local gog residence blobbed down on the doorsteps of the nearest living gog envoy. Screaming and raving they made a point out of how cookies should be handled let alone how cookies designed to provide services to some of the largest evil organisations known to mankind found a place on this last forgotten sanctuary of lonely gamers and game respondents looking for some intimacy!

No, if you would have been there .......