Cookies on benri.to

Effective: May 8, 2026

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to remember. We try to use as few as possible.

What we use

PostHog analytics cookies + localStorage. PostHog is the only thing on benri.to that uses cookies or localStorage. It uses them to:

• Tell whether you're a returning visitor (without knowing your name or email)
• Tie your actions on the same visit together (so we can see "this person looked at X then clicked Y")

The cookies appear under benri.to in your browser because we proxy PostHog through /ingest. Functionally, they're PostHog's.

You might see:

• ph_phc_<id>_posthog (cookie) — your anonymous distinct ID for this browser
• ph_phc_<id>_posthog (localStorage) — session ID, feature flag values, and visitor state

That's all. No advertising cookies. No retargeting. No social media tracking. No session-replay recording (we configure PostHog to keep recordings off in code, regardless of dashboard settings).

What you can do

• Block cookies in your browser settings— the site still works fine. You'll just look like a new visitor every time, which is fine with us.
• Use private/incognito mode— cookies don't persist across sessions.
• Enable Do Not Track in your browser— we configure PostHog to respect it.
• Use a tracker-blockerlike uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger — modern lists catch /ingest most of the time, though the reverse proxy makes blocking less reliable than for direct third-party trackers.

We don't run a cookie banner. With one anonymous analytics cookie, a modal asking you to accept it would be theater more than information. If you'd rather not be tracked at all, the options above are cleaner.

Questions

Email pazi@benri.to.