Skype won't let me set privacy settings.

Your system will not allow me to set the 'privacy' settings. I'm selecting 'only accept calls from contacts',  no cookies, no this, no that.......and clicking 'save'. But all that happens is your blasted system keeps giving me a message saying "your call forwarding can't be set up at this time, please try again'   ........and then it resets to the 'default' settings, ie allowing calls from 'anyone' and allowing cookies etc. I don't want to set the damned call-forwarding and was not trying to. Everything I was setting up had nothing to do with call forwarding!   It's utterly frustrating, time-wasting and a rip-off.  Obviously it's set up this way so we have no choice but to accept cookies so Skype can monitor our 'preferences' and sell us other stuff.  This really feels dishonest to me, and Skype has plummeted in my estimation. 

Hi, Ann-11,
I understand your frustrations, however Skype is not the rip-off or cookie-crumbling monster you think it is!  Please do post back with what computer/operating system or device you are trying to set up Skype on; diagnosing and resolving the issues are platform-dependent as Skype runs on and works very differently depending upon the system and device.
Regards,
elainem77
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