In a world where sh*tty websites try to pass off their 376 advertising partner data mining as "essential" cookies, I'm doing something a little different.
Go back, read that again. Done that? good.
This is my own personal choice, and there are a few reasons for it.
- When I have tracking enabled, I become obsessed by it. I want to know who's on my site, what they're looking at. I become Alice falling down the rabbit hole.
- I let visitor numbers validate me, and that's really not a good thing.
- I become a slave to the numbers and let them pressurise me into what I create and publish, which is too pressurised for me.
This is on top of having seen the data captured by the likes of Meta used to manipulate the outcome of more than one election. A man who created a website to judge women who didn't like him, is not a man who cannot act responsibly with your data. He can go f*ck himself.
What cookies I do have
bold-theme-mode - this cookie is used to remember whether you have set the website theme to dark mode. I'd advise against it, as it's not working properly (thanks to the volume of manual fixes I've had to make to the code to get it to work how I wanted it to.
ghost-history - this cookie is used to remember your logged in state.
Both of these cookies are needed for the basic functionality on the site to work. Neither of them provide me, or any third parties with information about you as a visitor to my site.