Cookies and local storage

PeptidePedia Wiki sets no cookies. Not analytics cookies, not advertising cookies, not preference cookies, not a session cookie. There is consequently no consent banner: there is nothing to consent to, and a banner asking permission to do nothing would be theatre.

Consent requirements attach to storage that is not strictly necessary for the service the reader asked for. A static reference work that stores nothing triggers none of them. The site's authors regard the ubiquity of consent banners on sites that could equally have stopped tracking as the more interesting fact here.

Four articles carry working calculators, and three of them remember a preference in the browser's own local storage so that the reader does not re-enter it each visit:

These values never leave the browser. No server can read them, and the site has no mechanism to receive them. They can be removed at any time by clearing site data in the browser, which loses nothing but the preferences themselves.

Loading a page requests three typefaces from a web font service and, where configured, a stylesheet from a content delivery network. Those services see the reader's IP address and user agent because that is how HTTP works. Neither is asked to set an identifier, and neither is given one.

A reader who blocks the font service will see the site rendered in their browser's default serif, sans-serif and monospace faces. It is designed to degrade to that without breaking: the type scale, measure and layout are all specified independently of the fonts.

Both signals are honoured by default and without needing to be sent, because the behaviour they ask a site to refrain from does not occur here.