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Cookie Policy
There is not much to report, and that is the point. This page lists everything Do This Next stores in your browser — including the two things it stores without asking, and why they are the kind of thing you do not have to be asked about.
Last updated 25 August 2026.
Google Analytics is not activated until you give analytics consent. Before you decide, the Google Analytics library is not requested, not loaded and not run, no request is made to Google, and no Google cookie exists on your device. Refusing keeps it that way; withdrawing later removes the cookies it set.
What we use today
| Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Lasts | Consent? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dtn_consent | dothisnext.lol (us) | localStorage | Remembers your answer to the privacy banner, with the version of the choices you were shown and the date you made it. Never sent to our server. | Until you change it or clear your browser storage | No — it records the choice |
dtn_utm | dothisnext.lol (us) | sessionStorage | Carries the campaign tags from the link you arrived on across the pages you read, so a Product Check can be attributed to the thing that sent you. | Until you close the tab | Yes — part of Analytics |
_ga | Cookie | Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted. | 2 years | Yes — Analytics | |
_ga_QYB0Z2WDTZ | Cookie | Holds session state for our Google Analytics property (G-QYB0Z2WDTZ). | 2 years | Yes — Analytics |
The categories
Essential. Always on, because there is no version of the site without them. Today this is one thing: the record of your privacy choice. Storing your answer to a consent question is itself exempt from needing consent — the alternative is asking you again on every page, which is worse for you and worse for us. Rate limiting the free Product Check is essential too, but it happens on our server against a daily-rotating hash of your IP address and stores nothing in your browser at all.
Analytics. Optional, off by default, and it stays off until you switch it on. It covers Google Analytics and the campaign tags we carry between pages. Turning it off stops both.
There is no advertising category, no “personalisation” category and no “partners” list, because we have none of those things. Advertising consent is refused to Google at all times, whatever else you choose. We would rather show you two honest categories than pad the dialog out to look thorough.
What we don’t have
- No login, so no session or authentication cookie. Do This Next has no accounts yet. When they arrive there will be a strictly necessary session cookie, and it will be listed here before it ships.
- No third-party fonts, tag manager or embeds. Fonts are served from our own domain, so loading a page contacts nobody but us unless you have turned analytics on.
- No advertising, retargeting or cross-site tracking. No ad pixels, no session recording, no heatmaps, no fingerprinting.
- No cookies from payments on this site. Paying happens on Stripe’s own checkout pages, under Stripe’s own policy. Nothing of Stripe’s runs on dothisnext.lol.
Our own analytics, and why it isn’t in the table
We count page views and a handful of events — someone clicked into the Product Check field, someone submitted a URL, someone looked at pricing — on our own server. It sets no cookie, reads nothing from your device, creates no identifier and cannot follow you to another site. What is stored is the page, the referring site’s domain (never the full address) and any campaign tag in the link you clicked. Because it neither stores nor reads information on your device, it is not a cookie question at all; it is covered in the Privacy Policy as processing we base on legitimate interests, and you can object to it there.
How long any of this lasts
The durations in the table are how long each item can live in your browser. They are separate from how long we keep anything on our side: an anonymous Product Check and everything attached to it is deleted 90 days after it was created, by a job that runs daily. That, and the rest of our retention, is in the Privacy Policy.
Changing your mind
opens the same panel as the banner, from here or from the footer of any page. Accepting and refusing are one click each, they always have been, and there is no third state where we take silence as a yes.
You can also clear or block storage in your browser. Blocking everything means we cannot remember that you said no, so the banner will ask again — annoying, but the honest consequence rather than a trick.