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Cookies Policy

Last reviewed on 2026-04-27.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store on your device. They make many ordinary parts of the web work — keeping you logged in across pages, remembering preferences, measuring how many people visited a page, and helping advertisers count whether their ads were seen. Similar technologies (local storage, pixels, software development kits, device identifiers) do related jobs and are covered by this policy too.

This page lists the categories of cookies used on DiffBetween.net (the "Site"), why each category exists, and how you can switch them off.

2. Categories used on this Site

2.1 Strictly necessary

These cookies are required for the Site to load and function correctly. They support core requests such as serving pages from the content delivery network and load-balancing traffic. They don't track you across sites and aren't used for advertising. Disabling them is not generally possible without breaking parts of the Site.

2.2 Analytics

The Site uses Google Analytics to understand which pages are read, how readers move between them, and where readers come from. The information is used in aggregate to improve content and structure.

  • Provider: Google Analytics (Google LLC).
  • Typical cookies / identifiers: _ga, _ga_<property-id>, and other Google Analytics identifiers.
  • Purpose: Aggregate measurement, traffic sources, page popularity.
  • Opt out: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on in any browser, or block analytics cookies in your browser settings.

2.3 Advertising

The Site is supported by display advertising delivered by Google AdSense and, where applicable, partner ad networks. These networks use cookies and similar identifiers to:

  • Decide which ads to show to a given browser.
  • Count how often an ad has been shown and to how many distinct browsers (frequency capping and reach).
  • Measure clicks and conversions, including whether an ad shown on this Site led to a later action elsewhere.
  • Where applicable, personalize ads based on prior browsing on this Site and other sites that use the same advertising networks.
  • Providers: Google AdSense (Google LLC) and any partner networks Google may use to fill ad inventory.
  • Typical cookies / identifiers: __gads, __gpi, IDE, NID, ANID, and other Google or partner advertising identifiers.
  • Purpose: Ad selection, measurement, fraud prevention, and (where applicable) personalization.

2.4 Preferences

If you change something about how the Site is displayed (for example, dismissing a notice), a small preference cookie may be stored to remember that choice. These cookies are not used for advertising or analytics and only affect what you see on the Site.

3. How to manage cookies

You have several layers of control. From most general to most specific:

3.1 In your browser

Every modern browser lets you block, delete, or be warned about cookies. Help pages for the major browsers:

Disabling all cookies will keep the Site usable, but some features (and some advertising) may not behave as expected.

3.2 For Google's services specifically

3.3 Industry opt-out tools

4. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" header or a Global Privacy Control signal. Industry standards on how to honour these signals are still evolving. Where required by law (for example, in California), the Global Privacy Control signal is treated as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Changes to this policy

If the cookies in use change materially — for example, if a new advertising partner or analytics provider is added — this page will be updated and the "Last reviewed" date at the top of the page will move forward.

6. Related pages

For the broader picture of how data is collected and used, see the Privacy Policy. For terms governing your use of the Site, see the Terms of Use. For general questions, contact [email protected].