Forum Operations Feedback Thread

[Seapup]

Wyze websites that are available to EU viewers have to comply with GDPR. Wyze is using an Osano widget that is supposed to be locale-sensitive in that it tailors itself to the GDPR requirements, if any, specific to the viewer’s location. Not only is it not working for CONUS viewers, the widget options are buggy. Once you opt out, you can’t change your selection and are plagued with widget status overlayed on all Wyze webpages. To get around the intrusive widget overlay, @Crease and I are running the uBlock Origin browser extension. It works fairly well with minimal learning curve.

[perrycomo92882]

Here’s another unintended consequence IF you prefer to SHOW the Wyze logo (Chrome/desktop).

[Seapup]

I feel your pain. We informed Wyze that the widget is causing forum and Web View issues.

[carverofchoice]

@Seapup

uBlock Origin browser extension

Except that I believe browser extensions don’t work on Chrome Mobile, so it won’t fix my mobile experience.

Strangely enough, the annoying button is only showing up for me on my phone, and I’m not on my laptop browser right now for some reason.

[Seapup]

Looks like Wyze is attempting to tweak the widget. Right now using Chrome under Win11, we have TWO intrusive overlayed areas, a new one at the top left and one at bottom left.

[Crease]

@carverofchoice

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.

@Seapup

To get around the intrusive widget overlay, @Crease and I are running the uBlock Origin browser extension. It works fairly well with minimal learning curve.

I don’t have significant Tampermonkey experience, but I’ve been using uBlock Origin (and uBlock Origin Lite since Chrome broke uBlock Origin usability), and persistently filtering out this content is relatively easy with uBlock Origin Lite once it’s installed:

1. Open the site/page with the unwanted content.
2. Click to open uBlock Origin Lite’s menu and select  Create a custom filter.
3. Click the offending content to highlight it (i.e., click the cookie or “Opt-Out Signal Honored” button).
4. Drag the slider in the custom filter builder box (lower-right corner) until div.osano-cm-window is selected.
5. Click Create.

To undo:

1. Open uBlock Origin Lite’s settings.
2. Click the Custom filters tab.
3. Click the icon to delete the filter.

@carverofchoice

Except that I believe browser extensions don’t work on Chrome Mobile, so it won’t fix my mobile experience.

I use uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android and have for a long time. It’s one of the reasons Firefox is my default mobile browser. That doesn’t fix the Chrome issue, but I’m unlikely to use Wyze Web Portal in a mobile browser when I have the app available, anyway.

@Seapup

Right now using Chrome under Win11, we have TWO intrusive overlayed areas, a new one at the top left and one at bottom left.

I noticed the appearance of the “Your Privacy Choices” line at the top of the Forum. Even though that’s somewhat annoying (when this other one is still present), at least it rolls away when I scroll.

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Edit @ 2026-03-03T01:42:52Z

Just for curiosity, I tried creating custom filters with regular uBlock Origin in Firefox. The process is slightly different because of differences in UI between the extensions, but I found that I could create filters in uBlock Origin and then open its Dashboard and navigate to My filters, where I could copy the relevant lines and then paste them into the uBO Lite Dashboard in Chrome (navigating to Custom filters and then selecting Import / Export to paste the filter lines):

forums.wyze.com###privacyChoicesLink
forums.wyze.com##.osano-cm-window
my.wyze.com###privacyChoicesLink
my.wyze.com##.osano-cm-window

That seems to work if someone wants an easy way to make these things disappear while Wyze is tinkering, but I’ll probably delete the filters or turn them off again because I want to see if/when this changes.

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Edit @ 2026-03-03T16:29:08Z

I messed around a little more yesterday, because I was curious about a couple of other things:

1. These filters can be pasted/imported into uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android and work as expected.
2. The filters can be reduced to two entries to cover all wyze.com subdomains (main Web site, Help Center [Support], Forum, Web Portal):

   wyze.com###privacyChoicesLink
   wyze.com##.osano-cm-window
   

I’m not specifically advocating that anyone do this, but I’m posting it here because it’s already been suggested, and this seems to be one of the easiest ways to eliminate this content from view until Wyze figures out how they’re going to address this compliance issue in a way that doesn’t interfere with community members’ use of their Web properties. I’m keeping these filters off for myself because I want to be able to see if/when they change it, but I certainly wouldn’t blame someone else for getting fed up and wanting to make these elements go away. For anyone already using uBlock Origin/Lite, this might be the simplest way to do that.

[Seapup]

@Crease

I noticed the appearance of the “Your Privacy Choices” line at the top of the Forum. Even though that’s somewhat annaying (when this other one is still present), at least it rolls away when I scroll.

I filtered that too. It’s also broken and the checkmark and X (close) icons and link to privacy choices are currently inop.

[Crease]

@Seapup

It’s also broken and the checkmark and X (close) icons and link to privacy choices are currently inop.

[Seapup]

At least someone is working on it!

[Crease]

True. That’s a fair statement.

[Crease]

@Seapup

I filtered that too.

I see that it’s pretty easy to copy filters between uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite, so I updated my post above.