I use it almost any time there's a tech issue thread that hasn't gotten any response yet or if everyone is reporting the same issue

What does "accept all" entail? I do use a China IP btw, and have the same issue.

It means that you accept all cookies - in Europe/UK and California we get popups when we access a site for the first time and can choose to accept or decline nonessential cookies. On flyertalk there are quite a few cookies, and none of them are especially tasty. But as you're in China, all your web activity is tracked in many different ways already, VPN or not, so a few cookies from Flyertalk should be the least of your worries.

Note that you can avoid the need to even require users to accept third-party cookies, at least for YouTube, by using www(dot)youtube-nocookie(dot)com instead of the regular version without -nocookie, in the URL. I am not sure if the IB software will automatically rewrite these to the cookied version though. Although since the forum software automatically detects YouTube links and rewrites them into embeds, it would be incrementally trivial to use the nocookie version instead.

This is an officially supported domain by YouTube, which you can verify by clicking on any YouTube video, clicking Share, choosing Embed, then scroll down to the checkboxes and check "Enhanced Privacy Mode" -- you will see the link in the embed code change from youtube to youtube-nocookie.

(My in-development-and-may-never-be-published userscript for FT does this conversion automatically.)

I've been in the US (not physically in California; just California IP address) since this latest spate of issues happened. My limited understanding of the California law is that it's designed to alert people about potentially bad things. I have no reason to distrust IB, but I would appreciate assurances that "accept all" doesn't entail sale of personal data, overzealous analytics, etc.

I also don't get the point of "quick reply". so I just tried using it and if anything it wasn't quick. I got the "must wait before posting twice--this is a duplicate" thing. I never get that when I just hit reply.
Oh well,,,,so many bigger issue on here.

With a Cali IP you will be able to use Manage Preferences to review the rather long list of vendors who may receive anonymised or personally identifable data via cookies that you consent to.

The header to the OneTrust cookie tool says:

Europe but at times with a VPN.

yeah I think that's just with these current issues - normally it is in fairness very quick as no page reload

Is this "do not sell my personal information" menu new?

I am having the spinning quick reply problem on Chrome and Edge. I cannot insert a link on Chrome, but it works on Edge. And I still can't use ANY VPN IP from either Express VPN or Private Internet Access.

When I try to submit a quick reply, it just hangs and spins. However it *does* actually submit the post, I just have to refresh the page to see it.

I think it got introduced a few months ago - IB switched their Cookie preferences tool to OneTrust and there was a bit of fallout with various features not quite working after that change, and it took a fews days of back-and-forth on the forum here to determine that it was linked to the new cookie prefs tool. I think the Do not sell thing is specifically a Cali law that they are complying with.

I don't usually use the desktop version but I have set my preferences to not permit any unnecessary cookies.

Wiki editing failing with this error on Win10 Firefox:
In this thread:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...thread-15.html

Same thing happening on Mac OS Monterey w/ Firefox. I, inadvertently, submitted double posts last night because I didn't realize it was broken.