Cookies

Last reviewed 24 September 2026 · policy version 1

The public pages of Baiscope set no cookies at all unless you accept them below. That is not a form of words: with analytics declined, a fresh browser finishes loading the home page, a post, a download page and search with an empty cookie jar.

The cookies in the first table are the ones the site cannot do its job without. They are first-party or Cloudflare's, they carry no advertising identifier, and they are not something you can switch off here — if they were optional they would be in the second table.

Strictly necessary

CookieSet byWhat it doesHow long
ci_sessionBaiscope (admin and contributor areas only)Keeps you signed in and carries the form token that stops a third-party site submitting on your behalf. It is never set by the public pages.Until you close the browser (2 hours idle)
baiscope_editorBaiscope, when a staff account signs inContains the digit 1 and nothing else. It tells a public page to reveal an "Edit" link. It grants no access of any kind — the admin checks your session, never this.Until you close the browser
bs_feedbackBaiscope, only when you answer or close the "how does the new site compare" cardContains the word "answered" or "dismissed" and nothing else, so the card is not shown to you again. Your answer itself is stored without your address — only a one-way code of it, used to stop one person answering a hundred times.Answered: 400 days. Closed with ✕: 90 days
cf_clearance, __cf_bmCloudflareBot and abuse protection in front of the whole site. Without it the site cannot tell a reader from a scraper, and the subtitle downloads stop working for everyone.Set and managed by Cloudflare

Analytics — only if you accept

CookieSet byWhat it doesHow long
_ga, _ga_2H3H2P78S7Google Analytics, only after you acceptGives your browser a random id so Google can tell a returning visit from a new one, and reports which pages are read. We use it to decide what to subtitle next. We do not use it to identify you and we do not upload it anywhere else.Up to 400 days

Advertising

Nothing on the site loads an advertisement today, and no advertising cookie is set. The category exists so that the day one appears it is already behind your answer rather than added to a site that never asked.

Your choice

You have not chosen yet, so nothing beyond the strictly necessary cookies is loading.

Turning analytics off here deletes the _ga cookies it had already set. It cannot un-send a measurement that has already been taken, and it cannot unload a script that is already running on this page — but nothing further is sent, and the next page you open loads no analytics at all.