Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. There is no consent banner because, until you press play on something, there is nothing to consent to.

What is stored on your device

Light or dark

Switching between light and dark saves that choice in your browser under the key umbra:mode. It is local storage rather than a cookie, which matters in one practical way: it is never sent to a server. It exists so the site looks the way you left it. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.

Embedded players

Live sets are shown as still cards, not embedded players. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play. That is deliberate: embedding their player on page load would set their cookies on every visitor, including everyone who never watches anything.

• YouTube — loaded through youtube-nocookie.com, which does not set tracking cookies for playback. Thumbnails come from YouTube's image domain. Google's privacy policy applies once you press play.
• Spotify — release artwork is served from Spotify's image domain. Nothing else is requested from them, and this site holds no Spotify credentials.
• Streaming links — the panel on each release links out to Spotify, SoundCloud, Deezer, YouTube Music and Apple Music. Those are ordinary links: nothing is loaded from any of them until you follow one, and their own terms apply once you do.

If you never press play and never follow a link, none of that runs and none of those cookies are set.

Questions

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