Are y’all getting this when you click to play a YT video posted inline?
Started a few weeks ago on my setup, I think.
I saw that once recently on a video that the 
Sailor Man posted (I don’t recall which topic that was), but have seen the driveway squirrel circus videos play as expected.
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Thanks, Crease. I may have things too aggressively blocked. 
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Sure thing. I think it was this one that wasn’t playing for me right after it was posted, but I was able to see that you and the 'pup liked it, and I don’t recall what the particular message was in its place (error or otherwise). At the time, I think I was trying to watch it in Google Chrome on Ubuntu, but it’s playing fine for me now in Mozilla Firefox on Lubuntu. 
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I’m impressed at how you fully commit to solving peoples’ problems even when you don’t own the product involved. You’ll notice how I (virtually) never do that.
Well done. 
Also, you can stop anytime you want should you get tired of it. Consider this permission. 
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I noticed the statistics changed. Specifically it no longer shows how many days in a given period (year, month, etc) we logged in. I was curious if I missed a day since I’m not at my desktop as often anymore and went to check and couldn’t tell if I broke my streak or not.
I also noticed a new stat called “Cheers” which I have no idea what that is. I thought it was just a renaming of likes received, but it’s almost twice as high as that. What is “Cheers”?
Also noticed everything is reordered.
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Blame me.
I thought it was a per-user change when I saw that I could edit the columns, so I enabled, disabled, and moved some things in a way that made sense to me and the way that I wanted to see them (and to get rid of the horizontal scroll) when looking at that table. For now I’ve reset /u back to default.
I believe that’s a feature of Discourse Gamification, and I figured if anyone would appreciate that it would be you because of your occasional mentions of gamification. 
It looks like we don’t have the Leaderboard (at least not at its default /leaderboard location), so I have no idea how that core plugin is currently configured for Wyze Forum. We’d have to defer to the admins for that.
Sorry ‘bout messin’ up your stuff! Should be back to normal now.
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To clarify, I actually liked it better, other than the fact that some stats were removed. I do like the cheers stat. I would like to request that that be kept. Are there any other ones that could potentially be added? The more the merrier in my opinion. I also thought the new layout was significantly better than the default, so I wouldn’t be opposed to switching the layout back to what you set, because I believe it was better.
I actually assumed that the change happened because of a discourse update, and I was going to ask if we could get the missing stat back. I think they should make your layout the default.
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Is it now what you’re looking for?
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In addition to what’s currently displayed (and I should also note that I added Solutions back to the /u view, because I think that was there before but wasn’t restored after resetting to default), there are columns for Cheers and Wyze App, and those can all be reordered. (Personally I’d leave Wyze App deselected, because I don’t know how useful that is, but I wouldn’t object to having it as the last visible column if someone wanted to see that.)
I was gonna say I’d leave this up to @Loki since it’s a global change, but I see that @Seapup has already changed it.
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From a quick glance, it looks GREAT!
What kind of information does it show? I didn’t think we could access the forums in the Wyze app, or that it would know what kind of app we are using (iOS/Android, version number, etc). What is it even showing?
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I believe it’s just whatever a user self-selects for the Wyze App setting in Profile.
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Oh yeah, that’s a pointless field for stats. Not even a real stat (it’s static). Definitely leave that off. We can go see that in someone’s profile anytime.
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What’s with this new “OPT OUT Signal Honored” notification that NEVER goes away on the Web View? (3/2/2026)
The video (with sound) tells the tale.
Why do we need to be reminded of the fact that we’ve told Wyze NOT to sell our personal information?
Now I have to play a game with my mouse to see if I have enough dexterity to get to the MUTE/UNMUTE button behind it.
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Wyze is going to have to answer your question. 
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That button is really annoying. I tried all different configurations, including letting them share my data and that button still stays up in the way of everything. Drives me crazy. They need an option to toggle it off and hide it. I generally don’t like floating buttons, especially ones that I can’t I move/reposition. It certainly makes everything very unfriendly that there is no easy way to remove it. I detest it. It’s fine to ask me for my preferences, but not to force that button to stay in the way of everything constantly.
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Looks like it’s rolling out to all Wyze websites… forum, support, web view, etc.
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There is a relatively easy way to remove it using a uBlock Origin Lite custom filter, but third-party intervention shouldn’t be necessary to eliminate something like this that can interfere with controls in Web View, the Forum, etc.
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Someone went overboard applying changes in reaction to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations that are supposed to be locale-sensitive.
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OMG I hate it so much.
Ah, a classic case of misinterpretation and “over-compliance”. It almost looks like “malicious compliance” except that the overcompliance isn’t harming the EU (GDPR) or CA legislators (CCPA/CPRA) who enacted them, the overcompliance or malicious compliance is only negatively impacting the innocent users’ experience. The legislators don’t care at all if it’s annoying the users (who will take it out on the company, not the legislators).
What they are misunderstanding here is that the GDPR requires that consent be ‘easy to withdraw,’ but it does not mandate a permanent UI obstruction. Following the Principle of Proportionality, this should be a link in the footer OR a ‘Privacy Settings’ tab in the user profile; not a floating button that blocks live camera feeds, or buttons on the forum, or other things.
Industry leaders satisfy these regulations without breaking the UX. By Wyze making the button persistent and un-dismissible, they aren’t just complying; they’re creating Consent Fatigue, which regulators actually view as a ‘dark pattern’ that does the opposite of obtaining “consent”…European regulators such as the CNL or ICO argue that in cases like this, consent wasn’t “freely given” but was instead coerced by annoyance and can actually be detrimental to your intended compliance efforts. Don’t do something annoying like this or it can backfire as contrary to compliance. Wyze, please move this to the footer where it belongs or create a special profile privacy tab like everyone else implementing this reasonably so we can all actually get back to things functioning without obstructions and see our cameras, etc.
If Wyze doesn’t fix this in a reasonable time frame I will probably build a tampermonkey user script to take care of it on the fly and then post it to be available for everyone else to add as a plugin. It’s intolerable.
Seriously, Wyze, just follow the industry standard on these things. If 90% of the companies aren’t doing something completely annoying and frustrating, then you (Wyze) shouldn’t do it either. Follow the principle of least restrictive means necessary. Industry titans (Google, Amazon, Apple) satisfy this by putting a cookie preferences link in their footer, so obviously Wyze’s obstructive floating button is an unnecessary “pioneer” in frustration and acts as a usability hazard for a security product. A security company should prioritize a clear field of vision.
I support forcing everyone to select their preferences. That’s totally fine for liability purposes. But force-keeping it up is ridiculous. Nobody does that. You want to be a pioneer in innovation and solving problems people have, not in creating new problems unnecessarily. Don’t purposely annoy people when you don’t have to and 90% of others don’t do it either. It makes no sense.
The GDPR does not require things to be implemented this way.
In fact, causing consent fatigue through annoyance like this is often seen as the opposite of compliance by those same regulators.
Sorry Wyze, I LOVE you guys, I’m indisputably one of your biggest supporters, but I also call you out when you are wrong too, and you are wrong here.
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