Cookie Policy
The only cookies this site sets are the first-party measurement cookies of Google Analytics — none for advertising, and none that follow you between sites. This page says that plainly, explains those cookies and how to refuse them, describes the few things your own browser stores locally, and points you to how our own cookieless analytics work.
Cookies on this site
Reading this site requires no account and no login. Ordinary browsing sets one kind of cookie: the first-party Google Analytics measurement cookies (their names begin with "_ga"), which distinguish one visit from another for aggregate usage statistics. We set no other cookies. We do not deploy cookies or similar technologies that follow you between sites or build a profile of your behaviour, and we do not permit advertising networks to do so through our pages.
You can refuse the Google Analytics cookies by installing Google’s browser opt-out add-on, by blocking the googletagmanager.com domain with a content blocker, or by disabling JavaScript for this site — every page remains fully readable without it. If any strictly necessary technical storage were ever required for a core function to work, it would be limited to that function and would not be used to track you.
Cookieless analytics and how to opt out
Separately from Google Analytics, we measure how the site is used with self-hosted, cookieless analytics: no cookies, no persistent identifier, and network addresses are anonymised before storage. The resulting statistics are aggregate, are never linked to your identity, and never leave our servers.
Because the measurement is anonymous, the site does not change its behaviour in response to the Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control browser signals — there is no personal profiling for them to switch off. If you prefer not to be counted at all, disabling JavaScript for this site opts you out of analytics entirely; every page remains fully readable without it. The full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Local browser storage
A few reader conveniences — such as saved reading-list items and your display-theme preference — are stored only in your own browser, on your own device, using local browser storage. That information is never transmitted to us, and clearing your browser storage removes it; we hold no copy.
Third-party content
When a story links out to, or your browser loads media directly from, an original publisher, that publisher’s own technologies are governed by its own cookie and privacy policies, not ours. We encourage you to read the policies of any site you visit through our links.
Questions
For anything about cookies, storage, or analytics, see our Privacy Policy or contact us at hey@social-justice.news.