Cannot reject cookies and log in to work

tony_459

Dear Onshape,

My data is mine. I own it. I'm not cool with you installing cookies on my machine. I do not want to be tracked. I do not want to be served personalized experiences. I just want to work, in privacy, and in control of this one thing that is most decidedly mine---my data, which the possessive pronoun suggests belongs to me.

That includes the cookies you compel me to accept in order to log in and work. Is this legal? it shouldn't be. In fact, it's moves like this that lead to changes in legislation to prevent moves like this.

But maybe I'm wrong. So please explain how does one log into Onshape to work while still exercising their right to not be tracked? Excuse me if I'm irked, but I'd like to know. I like my rights respected. Don't you? Compelling us to accept cookies just to work is right next door to forcing us to forfeit our right to privacy.

If you can't tell from the image above, the cookie notice blocks the log in button and there is only one choice---Accept. What am I supposed to do---pretend I don't clearly see what's going on here? Not cool.

NeilCooke

cad.onshape.com

steve_shubin

@tony_soares459

A few things

YOU SAID ——

That includes the cookies you compel me to accept in order to log in and work. Is this legal? it shouldn't be. In fact, it's moves like this that lead to changes in legislation to prevent moves like this.

Let me see if I got this right. People need to slave to allow you to use their program for free, under the stipulations that you demand. ————— I don’t know ——— but there is one thing that comes to mind — that the word ungrateful just screams at me whenever I read this kind of nonsense.

Nobody is compelling or forcing you to use Onshape. You have chosen to use it under the conditions that Onshape has set. It means your documents are not private either — they are public documents

There are other programs out there. Likely some free ones that do not require you to have cookies installed. What about Blender? I think that is one of the approved netizens programs.

Myself — that a company like PTC would allow me to use what I believe is a world class CAD program in many ways, FOR FREE, Is just amazing . Thanks PTC !!!

How about this — what if I said — I’m demanding that you slave for me now and send me $1000 a month for me to piss away anyway I want. After all — I have my rights as an ungrateful freeloader of the world

Sorry for the rant but this kind of stuff just irks me to no end. Oh baloney - I’m not sorry for what I said - it needs to be said once in a while and made clear.

By the way I am not an employee of Onshape or PTC in any fashion, form, or manner. Nor have I ever been an employee of Onshape or PTC. Never even met anyone from Onshape or PTC. But, I am extremely grateful that I get to use their wonderful product FOR FREE !

And I can’t say thanks enough to PTC

tony_459

I wouldn't let a mechanic rummage through my car in exchange for a free oil change. I wouldn't let a store clerk rummage through my groceries in exchange for a coupon. I wouldn't let a housekeeper skim through the papers in my house in exchange for a free cleaning.

Some things are mine, always, and nobody else's. If you're casual about your data and identity, that's your prerogative. I'm not, and most people are not, which is why we're seeing legislation requiring websites to tell you they're collecting your data.

I appreciate access to Onshape. I do. But my data is to be controlled by me. If you want it, you have to ask me first. And by ask, I mean to give me the option to accept or to decline---not just the option to accept, and oops, we forgot about the decline.

So to recap---saving me money on software does not give you the right to rummage through my data without my consent, and that consent means nothing if I do not have the option to decline, since then I am no longer in control of the option---you are.