Cookies, consent and tracking

Consent on OutaStory is handled by a consent manager called
CookieYes. It is the banner you saw the first time you
arrived, and it is what remembers your answer afterwards.

Nothing non-essential runs until you say yes

Analytics and advertising trackers are off until you grant the
matching consent. That is the default, not something you have
to switch on. If you never answer the banner, or you decline,
those trackers do not fire.

What we collect and why is written out in the
privacy policy.

Changing your mind later

There is no cookie-settings page on OutaStory. Do not go
hunting through your profile for one — it does not exist.

Instead, your choices are re-opened from the floating consent
badge: a small round button that sits in a corner of the page.
Click it and the consent dialog comes back, with your current
answers preselected. Change what you like and save. Your new
answer replaces the old one from that moment on.

The badge is missing — what happened

This is the one that catches people out.

The consent manager is loaded from an external domain,
cdn-cookieyes.com. If a content blocker, ad blocker, tracker
blocker or strict privacy mode blocks that domain, the whole
consent manager fails to load — and the floating badge
disappears entirely.

There is then no way to change your consent from inside the
site, because the thing that would show you the dialog never
arrived.

How to spot it

No round consent badge anywhere on the page.
You never saw a consent banner at all, on any page.
Other sites you visit also seem to have lost their cookie
banners — a good sign the blocker is the common factor.

How to fix it

Allow cdn-cookieyes.com in your blocker or privacy
extension, then reload the page. In most blockers this is
either an exception for that domain or disabling the blocker
for outastory.com.
Or open OutaStory in a different browser — one without
that blocker — and set your consent there.

A blocked consent manager is not dangerous. Since non-essential
trackers stay off without a granted consent, a missing badge
leaves you on the cautious side. It just means you cannot change
the answer until the manager can load.

Downloading a copy of your data
— your export includes your consent records.
What other people can see
— consent is about tracking; profile visibility is a separate
set of controls.