Can't access the forum on mobile

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Hi.

As the title suggests, I can't access the forum on my phone. I'm using Edge on Android and when I try to navigate to the forum I get a "we value your privacy" popup and none of the buttons are clickable. It effectively stonewalls me from reading any forum content.

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I'm not aware of this issue, but to help the other guys. 

What version of Android are you using?

Did you try a different browser? To see if Edge is the issue here.

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Can Confirm, this only appears to happen on Edge installed on Android, No issue on Chrome, Firefox, Samsung Browsers.

Screenshot_20260612_075900_Edge.jpg

 

Android 16
Samsung OneUI 8.5
Newest Releases of Each Browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Samsung Browser)
This happens both With and Without my VPN being active.

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Can't reproduce. I installed Edge, went to neowin.net > accepted the cookie consent > used menu to go to forums, everything loads and I can browse around the forums.

If you can't interact with the dialog on the forums for some reason, go to the main site and accept the cookie consent there?

It is true that the site will not function properly until the cookie consent is accepted or rejected,. it's a legal requirement and I also know that certain VPN/ad blockers block it, which is a user related issue and not a neowin.net problem.

 

On 12/06/2026 at 14:00, _neutrino said:

Can Confirm, this only appears to happen on Edge installed on Android, No issue on Chrome, Firefox, Samsung Browsers.

Screenshot_20260612_075900_Edge.jpg

 

Android 16
Samsung OneUI 8.5
Newest Releases of Each Browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Samsung Browser)
This happens both With and Without my VPN being active.

This is not our cookie consent dialog.

Gotta love browser hijacking... /s

Edit: this may be what Californians see, I will confirm with our consent provider.

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Other regions see different dialogs (from consent provider)
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On 12/06/2026 at 12:17, Steven P. said:

Can't reproduce. I installed Edge, went to neowin.net > accepted the cookie consent > used menu to go to forums, everything loads and I can browse around the forums.

If you can't interact with the dialog on the forums for some reason, go to the main site and accept the cookie consent there?

It is true that the site will not function properly until the cookie consent is accepted or rejected,. it's a legal requirement and I also know that certain VPN/ad blockers block it, which is a user related issue and not a neowin.net problem.

 

This is not our cookie consent dialog.

Gotta love browser hijacking... /s

Edit: this may be what Californians see, I will confirm with our consent provider.

Im in Ohio, and my VPN endpoint is in Boston.

If that helps, it does happen both on and off the VPN.

and again only in Edge.

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Interesting. I'm not using a VPN with my phone. I tried though my home internet (Rogers) and my cellular internet (Telus) using their respective DNS servers and both trigger the dialog above.

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My issue is I can't access the forum on mobile if the site is set to Desktop mode on Vivaldi because it can't complete the Cloud flare am I a bot check! I know this is a Vivaldi issues as it has started happening on all cloud flare check sites, it's so annoying, I've reported it but no fix yet.

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I really wonder if this has to do with the built in VPN or "private DNS" of browsers that trip up legal requirements like cookie consent and Cloudflare (to avoid all the botnet attacks we get).

And BTW some botnets still manage to get past Cloudflare, we are constantly having to tweak it to block malicious traffic that ultimately cause a DDoS.

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