Privacy & cookies
No accounts, no sign-up, nothing to fill in. Here is what is measured, and how to turn it off.
What Nitrate measures
Nitrate uses two analytics services to see which films people look for and where the site gets in their way:
- Google Analytics — page views, how visitors arrived, and rough location and device type.
- Microsoft Clarity — clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, replayed as anonymised session recordings and heatmaps. Clarity masks text you type.
Both only set cookies if you allow analytics. If you don't, they run in a cookieless mode: Google receives a page-view signal with no identifier attached, and Clarity treats every page as a separate, anonymous visit that cannot be linked to the next one.
Cookies and storage
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Kept for | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
nitrate-consent | Nitrate | Remembers your cookie choice | 6 months | Essential |
nitrate-region | Nitrate | Remembers the country you pick for streaming availability | 1 year | Essential |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Tells visits apart so returning visitors are counted once | Up to 2 years | Analytics |
_clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Links the pages of one visit, and repeat visits, together | 1 year / 1 day | Analytics |
Microsoft may also set its own cookies, such as MUID, on its domains when Clarity is allowed. Your viewing progress — so a film can resume where you left off — is kept in your browser's local storage and never leaves your device.
Other sites involved
Films, and some thumbnails, load straight from the Internet Archive, so your browser contacts archive.org directly, under its own terms. Trailers come from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain and load only when you click one. Artwork and film details from TMDB are fetched by Nitrate's server, not your browser.
Advertising
Nitrate shows no ads today. If it starts, the Advertising choice in your cookie settings decides whether ad partners may use cookies to personalise them, this page will be updated, and you will be asked again.
Your choice
You can change or withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawing deletes the analytics cookies already set.