Internet-related sentences

[JACEK1]

Hello everybody!

An acquaintance of mine has asked me to translate into English some Internet-related and computer-related sentences:

One of them is below (in bold).

The text below is about "Cookie" files.

I would like to say that one of functions of "Cookie" files is to save lack of permission to display some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters in the future. In other words, lack of permission to display some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters in the future is/should be saved (by a website?).

Here are some examples of using "Cookie" files on websites:

1) saving lack of permission to display some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters in the future

or

2) saving prohibition on displaying some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters in the future

or

3) saving prohibition on displaying some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters in the future

What is your opinion?

Variants under 2 and 3 are, in my opinion, synonyms or similar in meaning.

 

[Tarheel]

Many websites use cookies. This is one of them. By using the site you are implicitly giving them permission to use them.

The word content is, generally speaking, a noncount noun.

I don't know what you mean by saving prohibition.

 

[JACEK1]

Yesterday I talked to my wife’s son-in-law, who is very good at solving xerox problems and has a knack for technology-related issues. He suggested that I write something like:
A) saving items unwanted in the future such as some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters

or

B) saving items that are / will be unwanted in the future such as some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters

Is there professional, Internet-related vocabulary to express such a thought?

I will try and explain to you what it is all about. The moment you enter a website, plenty of various crazy commercials appear and persuade you to buy as many items as possible. You no longer want any commercials, so you keep clicking and pressing until they disappear.

By “saving”, I mean “saving to the computer” or “storing on the Internet”.

 

[Tarheel]

I disagree with your friend. First, we don't save things we don't want. Second, we do say contents, but I wouldn't do it there.

An ad has persuaded you if you buy what it's selling. Otherwise, say the ads sell us things.

Say you don't want to look at the ads.

You know how to do something I don't know how to do (store things on the internet).

 

[JACEK1]

I am sorry to say that but you seems to have got me wrong.

Cookies serve many purposes.

One of the purposes is to save unwanted items in the future such as some contents, commercials, forms of newsletters.

What is your opinion about the bolded sentence in italics?

 

[probus]

One of the purposes of cookies is to store your preferences as to what kinds of advertising you wish to see. If your preference is to see certain types of content, a cookie will work very well for that.

But a cookie that purports to prevent your seeing some content may or may not work. Some content providers may respect such cookies while others may not.

If some content annoys you greatly and you really really want to avoid it, choosing the right browser can help you a lot. Inbrowser, for example, refuses to store any cookies at all. Each time you shut it down it deletes any cookies it may have received during your browsing session. So you start each session with a blank slate.

Unfortunately I have found that Inbrowser does not work well for all websites. To minimize my exposure to trash advertising I use a variety of browsers including Inbrowser.

On the subject of online privacy, I might add that Google's whole business model is based on acquiring information about users that it can sell to advertisers. If that offends you, you can avoid gmail and use another search engine such as duckduckgo.

 

[JACEK1]

I would like to know whether or not the bolded sentence in italics is properly formulated from the linguistic point of view.

 

[probus]

I am sorry to say that but you seems to have got me wrong.


What is your opinion about the bolded sentence in italics?

I don't understand what you are trying to say. I don't believe a cookie will necesaarily prevent you from seeing some content you might prefer not to see.

 

[GoesStation]

I would like to know whether or not the bolded sentence in italics is properly formulated from the linguistic point of view.

It's a grammatically correct bullet point, but readers will have considerable difficulty figuring out what it means.