Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Miscellaneous/Remember site notice dismissals

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Remember site notice dismissals

Problem: When browsing Wikipedia with Firefox in private mode, the same site notices pop up again in each new session after logging in, presumably because dismissing site notice(s) is recorded in (a) cookie(s) that get discarded after closing Firefox. This also happens when using multiple browsers or devices.

Who would benefit: Registered users using session cookies and/or multiple browsers or devices.

Proposed solution: Record the dismissal of a site notice on the server as part of the user data so that this information is preserved between sessions and identical in multiple browsers and devices.

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Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: Tim Landscheidt (talk) 04:53, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

The dismissal works for me. Do you have some browser add-on installed that deletes cookies at the end of the session? Anomie (talk) 00:34, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Deleting cookies (and other stuff) at the end of a session is a feature of Firefox's "private mode" (I don't know if there is a more formal documentation for that than the blurb at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/private-browsing/). --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 01:22, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah, I missed you specifying private mode. Anomie (talk) 14:32, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Storing the dismissal as part of user data would be useful even to those of us who don't use private mode. I view Wikipedia on a dozen browsers spread across nearly as many devices, and playing whack-a-banner gets tiring after a while. --Carnildo (talk) 23:31, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Tim Landscheidt (talk) 01:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 11:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 15:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Extremely annoying… — Arkanosis ^✉ 15:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rcsprinter123 (talk) 20:05, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laboramus (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 22:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Carnildo (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support PKM (talk) 05:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 10:13, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Balko (talk) 16:17, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support DMacks (talk) 05:09, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dominic Z. (talk) 16:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Terra ❤ ^(talk) 07:05, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support I recently don’t dismiss site notices, because dismissing them on every single device/browser I use takes too much effort, and they come back if I delete cookies. Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:46, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gryllida 00:48, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 01:11, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anthonyhcole (talk) 04:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 06:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support _• _• _hugarheimur 22:33, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jack who built the house (talk) 21:37, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per-user dismissal — NickK (talk) 17:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]