Cookies
None. This site sets no cookies, and there is no banner because there is nothing to ask you about.
effective 4 September 2026
No cookies
softaware.io sets no cookies. Not one, not first-party, not third-party.
There is no analytics, no advertising, no embedded video, no social buttons, no fonts pulled from someone else’s server. The page’s content security policy forbids it from loading code or making connections anywhere but here, so nobody else can set a cookie through it either. If your browser shows a cookie from this domain, something is wrong and we would like to hear about it.
Three things your browser remembers
The site keeps three settings in your browser’s own storage. Each one records something you did on the page, holds a single value with no identifier of any kind in it, is read only by your browser to put the page back the way you left it, and is never sent to us or anyone else.
| Key | Kind | What it remembers | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
sa.palette |
localStorage | The colour palette you chose with the theme command |
Until you clear it |
sa.crt |
localStorage | That you turned the scanlines off with the crt command |
Until you clear it |
sa.intro |
sessionStorage | That the headline has already animated in this tab | Until the tab closes |
Why there is no banner
European law requires your consent before anything is stored on your device — with one exception, for storage that is strictly necessary to provide what you asked for. Settings you set yourself, by pressing something on the page, are the textbook case of that exception: the site is remembering the instruction you just gave it, and it would be a strange kind of privacy to interrupt you with a dialog about your own decision.
Since there is nothing else stored, there is nothing to consent to, and no banner. If that ever changes, the banner will arrive before the thing it asks about does.
Clearing them
Use the button below, or type reset in the terminal at the end of the story on the home page, or clear this site’s data in your browser. Any of the three puts the site back to its defaults and forgets that you were ever here.