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Strictly necessary

Sign-in, security checks and remembering this choice. The site cannot work without them, so they don’t need consent and can’t be switched off.

Always on

Preferences

Remembers choices you make so the site behaves the way you left it.

Things like a dismissed notice or a filter you set on the games library. Nothing here identifies you or leaves this site.

Analytics

Tells us which pages get read, so we know what is worth writing.

Google Analytics, Jetpack Stats and Metricool. These record the pages you visit, roughly where you are in the world, and how you got here.

Embedded content and marketing

Lets videos, storefronts and social posts load directly in the page.

YouTube, Vimeo and Steam embeds load from those companies, who can see that you viewed the page and may use it for their own advertising. Without this you get a button to load each one by hand.