Cookies policy

There are two third-party sources of cookies on this website: blog comments (via commento.io), and embedded YouTube videos. We summarise both of these, and your ability to opt out, below.

Blog comments

We manage comments on our blog posts through the third-party service commento.io. If you either log in to one of the authentication options, or leave an anonymous comment, then it will set a functional cookie with a 1-year duration called commentoCommenterToken recording a hash of your login or the string anonymous (respectively). Its purpose is simply to prevent you from having to log back in whenever you want to use the comment section.

In particular, no cookies are set unless you either leave a comment (anonymously) or log in to one of the authentication options.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed all YouTube videos in “Privacy Enhanced Mode”, but when you play a video Google still writes data to your browser’s local storage and makes a number of network calls to other services, such as Google Fonts. Furthermore, if you logged into Google, then embedded YouTube videos will still set cookies even with Privacy Enhanced Mode enabled.

To combat this, we embed videos with lite-youtube-embed, which means the actual embedded video is not loaded until you click on the thumbnail. This means that, in particular, no data is written to your browser’s local storage unless you click on an embedded video to load it.