The short version
What this site actually sets
The tools on this site set no cookies. They do not write to local storage or session storage either. Nothing you paste into a tool is saved in your browser between visits, and no preference, history or draft is kept there.
One third-party service does set cookies: Google Analytics, which is loaded on every page to measure how many people visit and which pages they open. That is the entire cookie footprint of this site.
There are no advertising cookies, no retargeting pixels, no social media trackers and no data broker tags. Nothing here follows you to another site.
The list
The cookies, named
Google Analytics 4 sets two cookies. Both are first-party, meaning they are stored against this site's own domain rather than a shared advertising domain.
- _ga
- Distinguishes one browser from another so repeat visits are not counted as new people. Google's default lifetime for it is two years.
- _ga_ followed by a stream identifier
- Holds the state of the current analytics session for this specific site. Same default lifetime.
- What they contain
- A randomly generated identifier and session timestamps. Not your name, not your email, not anything you typed into a tool.
Purpose
Why analytics is here at all
This site is a large collection of single-purpose tools, and analytics answers the only question that decides what gets built next: which of them people actually use. A page nobody opens is a page not worth expanding, and a page that gets steady traffic is worth writing properly.
That is the whole purpose. The measurement is about pages, not about people. No profile is built, nothing is sold, and no audience segment is exported anywhere.
An important distinction
Analytics never sees what you paste
It is worth separating two things that sound similar. Analytics records that a page was opened. The text you put into a tool is a different thing entirely, and analytics has no part in it.
For a browser tool, that text never leaves your device, so there is nothing for any third party to observe. For an AI tool, it travels in its own request to our endpoint, which analytics is not involved in. Neither path puts your text into an analytics event.
Also loaded
One more external request, for completeness
The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts. That does not set a cookie, but it is an external request, which means Google's font servers see the connection in the ordinary way any web server sees a request for a file.
It is mentioned here because a cookie policy that lists only cookies can leave a misleading impression of what a page loads. This and analytics are the complete set of external requests a page here makes.
Control
How to clear or block these
Every tool on this site works with these cookies blocked. Nothing is gated behind analytics, and no feature degrades without it, so blocking costs you nothing as a user.
- Clear them
- Use your browser's setting for clearing site data, and choose this site. Both cookies go with it.
- Block them
- Browser settings allow blocking third-party scripts or specific sites. A content blocker extension does the same and covers analytics generally.
- Opt out at the source
- Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics measurement across every site that uses it.
- Private browsing
- A private or incognito window discards cookies when it closes, so nothing persists between sessions.
Browser signals
Do Not Track, and why blocking works better
Browsers have offered a Do Not Track header for years, and more recently a Global Privacy Control signal. Both ask a site to respect a preference. Neither one forces anything, which is the part worth being clear about.
Google Analytics does not treat Do Not Track as an instruction to stop measuring by default, so switching that setting on in your browser should not be assumed to have removed this site's analytics. Saying otherwise would be comfortable and wrong.
If you want the measurement genuinely not to happen, block the script rather than send a request that it stop. The options in the previous section all work by preventing the analytics library from loading or running, which does not depend on anyone choosing to honour a signal. Every tool on this site keeps working either way.
Upkeep
If this list changes
This page lists what the site loads today. If another service is ever added, or analytics is removed, this page changes with it. A cookie policy is only useful if it matches the page it appears on.
The privacy policy covers the wider question of what happens to the text you submit to a tool, which is a separate matter from cookies. Questions about either go through the contact page.