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allowed to store it without asking, because remembering your own preference

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count visits and tell us which episodes people read. It tells us things

like how many people came, which pages they looked at and roughly where in

the world they were. It does not tell us who you are.

Google Analytics cookies usually last up to two years. The data goes to

Google, who also use it for their own purposes, which is why we have to ask

first rather than assume.

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log the request to count listens, which is how every podcast counts its

audience, and it happens whether you listen here or in any podcast app. We

see those figures as totals, not as individual people.

Episode videos come from YouTube on its privacy-enhanced domain, and only

once you press play. Until then YouTube is not contacted.

See the privacy page for what we do with personal data and how

to ask for a copy of yours.