This site sets no login or account cookies, for the simple reason that it has neither. What it does set is a small number of functional and analytics cookies, and the advertising networks serving ads here set their own on top of that. This page describes each category in turn, explains what it is actually for, and shows you how to switch any or all of them off.
What a cookie is doing here
A cookie is a small file a site stores in your browser so it can recognise the browser on a later visit. There is nothing sinister about the mechanism; what matters is what each one is used for.
Because this site has no accounts and no login, there are no session or authentication cookies. Nothing here needs to remember who you are, and nothing tries to.
Functional cookies
A small number of cookies keep the site working — remembering that you dismissed a notice, for example, or a preference you set. These are set by this site, hold no personal information, and expire on a short cycle.
Blocking them will not break anything important. You may simply be shown a notice more than once.
Analytics cookies
These record which pages are visited, how visitors arrive, and roughly where in the world they are, so we can tell which pages are useful and which are not.
The data is aggregate. It is not used to build a profile of you, is not sold, and is not connected to anything that identifies you personally.
Advertising cookies
These are the ones set by third parties.
Advertising on this site is served by external networks, including Google. Those networks set their own cookies to serve advertisements, cap how often you see the same one, and measure whether an ad worked. Some are used to show advertising based on your prior visits to this and other sites.
We do not control these cookies and cannot see what they collect. They are governed by each network's own privacy policy rather than ours.
How to turn them off
Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, either entirely or per site, in its privacy settings. The site works without them.
For advertising specifically, Google's ads settings let you turn off personalised advertising from Google, and the Digital Advertising Alliance runs an opt-out tool covering many networks at once. Turning personalisation off does not remove advertising — it makes it less relevant.
Browser private or incognito windows discard cookies when closed, which is another route if you would rather not change your default settings.