Cookies and Local Storage
Effective 17 August 2026.
This page is kept separate from the privacy policy rather than folded into it, because the two answer different questions. The privacy policy is about information; this is about the specific storage mechanisms in your browser and how to switch each of them off. Anyone arriving from a cookie banner or a browser prompt wants this page, not a section halfway down a longer one — and it is short enough to read in full, which a combined page would not be.
The headline is worth stating plainly: this site sets no cookies of its own. Not one. Everything it remembers about you is kept in localStorage, which is never transmitted anywhere. The cookies that do end up in your browser are set by Google, and only because of advertising and embedded players.
What this site stores, and why
All of the following live in your browser’s localStorage under keys beginning “guessthe:”. None of it is sent to a server by the site, and none of it is readable by another website.
Your settings: the display name you play under, whether you chose that name yourself, and whether sound effects are on. Without it the site would forget your name every visit.
A random player id: a UUID with no meaning outside this site, generated on your device the first time you finish a game, used to key your device’s own leaderboards.
Your play history: up to sixty finished games, each recorded as a game name, a time and a score, so the home page can show what you have been playing.
Your device leaderboards: up to fifty runs per game, so scores survive with no account and with no database configured.
Cached lookups: replies from Wikipedia and the iTunes Search API, kept for about a month. These describe songs, films and animals rather than you, and they exist so a game does not re-fetch the same facts every round — which also keeps the site inside Apple’s rate limits.
A sign-in session, if you sign in: the token that keeps you signed in between visits, stored by the Supabase client library. It disappears when you sign out.
Cookies set by other companies
Google, for advertising. The site carries Google AdSense, and Google and its advertising partners may place and read cookies in your browser, and may use web beacons or your IP address to collect information, as a result of ads being served here. This can include using cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this site or to other sites. Google explains what it collects at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and you can turn personalised advertising off at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. Third-party vendors can be opted out of at https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Google, for YouTube. Games that play a film trailer or a television title sequence embed the YouTube player. Loading it may set YouTube cookies. If you never open one of those games, the player never loads.
Google, for Street View. The country-from-a-street-corner game embeds a Google Street View panorama, which may set Google cookies when it loads.
Apple and Wikimedia. Audio previews, cover art and photographs are fetched from Apple and Wikimedia servers. These are plain image and audio requests: they reveal your IP address to those companies, as any embedded image does, but they do not set advertising cookies.
There are no analytics cookies here, because there is no analytics package. Nothing on this site measures you for our benefit.
Turning it off
To erase everything this site has stored on your device, clear site data — sometimes labelled “cookies and site data” — for guesstherest.com in your browser’s settings. The games will still work; they will simply have forgotten your name, your history and your device scores. There is no button inside the site that does this.
To stop it being stored in the first place, play in a private or incognito window. The site is written to survive localStorage being unavailable: scores stay in memory for the session and the games run normally.
To limit Google’s cookies, use the opt-out links above, block third-party cookies in your browser, or use its tracking-protection setting. Blocking them does not break any game here.
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