Cookies
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What are cookies?
Wikipedia defines cookies as:
...a small piece of data stored on the user's computer by the web browser while browsing a website. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or to record the user's browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past). They can also be used to remember pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields, such as names, addresses, passwords, and payment card numbers.
Optional cookies
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Necessary cookies
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Remembering if you've switched on dark mode
On your first visit, the website will be displayed in light mode, with black text on a white background. If you activate dark mode functionality via the icon on the navigation bar, we'll store a cookie in local storage so we know to display dark mode when you return.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| dark_mode | Saves a message to let us know that you have activated dark mode | Until cleared |
Authentication with Utterances comments
The website uses Utterances for leaving comments at the bottom of articles. To comment, you must authorize the utterances app to post on your behalf using the GitHub OAuth flow. The following information is then stored in local storage.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| utterances_session | Authentication | Until cleared |
YouTube cookies
Articles may contain YouTube videos to enhance or explain tutorials. We use privacy-enhanced mode which allows embedding of YouTube videos without using cookies that track viewing behaviour. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information as a result. Read more about about privacy-enhanced mode under manage video embedding options at YouTube's embedding videos information page.
You can also read YouTube's Privacy Policy for more information.
How to disable or delete cookies
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