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Munu

(87 posts) Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:50 AM Thursday

Enable cookies?

I always have cookies enabled for DU, but lately I am intermittently unable to log in and get the "enable cookies" message.
I check and find they are already enabled.

Obviously I didn't have the problem this morning, but all yesterday afternoon. And several times in the past week.

I use Brave browser (Chromium based) with minimal customization, and Proton VPN.

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Enable cookies? (Original Post) Munu Thursday OP

i am in brave now Tetrachloride Thursday #1

Usually the best thing to try in a situation like this EarlG Thursday #2

Follow up. Munu Friday #3

Thanks for the follow-up EarlG Yesterday #4

Tetrachloride

(9,380 posts)

1. i am in brave now

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:05 AM

Thursday

no issues

duck duck go is also functioning

EarlG

(23,346 posts)

2. Usually the best thing to try in a situation like this

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:06 AM

Thursday

is to delete any DU cookies that your browser is storing. Once you reset those cookies, the problem will hopefully resolve. It sounds like you know what you’re doing tech-wise, so I expect you already know how to do the cookie deletion, but if you need assistance let me know.

Munu

(87 posts)

3. Follow up.

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Fri Jan 2, 2026, 03:16 PM

Friday

I still don't know exactly what the problem was under the covers, but I figured out it only happened sometimes when I got into DU from a link in a search engine. Then I looked closer.

No problem
https://democraticunderground.com/

Problem
https://en.democraticunderground.com/

Hope that helps somebody else.

EarlG

(23,346 posts)

4. Thanks for the follow-up

Reply to Munu (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:34 PM

Yesterday

"en" is not a valid DU subdomain, so yeah, that would cause a problem. Glad you were able to figure it out.

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