Browser storage and the 30-minute pass
Every page with the download box asks our server for a signed pass the first time you click, type or paste into the box, before anything is sent. The server uses it to tell a real browser page from an automated script. Kept in the page's memory, it lasts about 30 minutes and is gone the moment you close or reload the tab. Our server keeps no copy of it, and it isn't a cookie either.
Plenty of sites tuck things away between visits in local storage or session storage. Nothing goes into local storage. The one session-storage entry, sveltekit:scroll, is the page framework remembering your scroll position, and your browser drops it when you close the tab.
The download box uses Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out. For that check, Cloudflare sees your IP address and browser details, under its own privacy policy.
Logins and cookies from other sites stay out of reach
It's our server that requests the public post from the platform, and the file comes back through it to your browser, so your own account plays no part in the exchange. Private and friends-only posts need somebody logged in to see them, and since we never log in as you, the tool turns them down by design.
Nobody here asks for your login, sees it or uses it, and the privacy policy has the rest of that story, down to the site's own accounts that some X and YouTube posts are fetched with.
- There's no "Log in with Facebook" button. Or "Continue with Google", or a sign-in of any kind. With nothing to connect, there's no permission for you to grant.
- No pixels or like buttons from social networks. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and the rest have no pixel, like button or embedded widget anywhere on our pages, so none of them gets a signal from us that you were here.
- Cookies are walled off by site. Your browser keeps each website's cookies walled off to that website. A page on 9-vids.com can't read what Instagram or TikTok have stored there, and we'd have no use for it if it could.
- Previews and files come through our own server. The preview picture and the file are both served from 9-vids.com, so while you use the tool your browser loads nothing from Facebook, Instagram or the other platforms, and the cookies you hold with them are never sent anywhere.
- Signed in stays signed in. Logged in to Instagram in another tab? You still will be afterwards, and if you were logged out, you stay logged out.
We don't log or trace who you are.
What Google Analytics counts for us
We lean on Google services, Google Analytics among them, for the picture of the site as a whole: how many people come, what they read, which pages keep them and which ones they leave straight away, a best guess at the country they're in, and whether they came on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
It tips us off when something's gone wrong, too. If a page's readers suddenly fall away right after we've changed it, there's usually a fault to fix, and the numbers tend to show it before anyone thinks to write in.
Totals and trends are what we read, never one person's trail. Visitor data isn't sold or traded, and there's no mailing list you could land on.
Google Analytics' two cookies
Google's script creates them for its counting, but it sets them on 9-vids.com itself, so your browser shows them under our name.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Lets Google Analytics tell one browser from the next, so coming back doesn't make you a new visitor every time. | Up to about 2 years (Google's default) |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Keeps track of the visit you are on now, so reading several pages in one go still adds up to a single visit. | Up to about 2 years (Google's default) |
The code after _ga_ is our site's measurement ID. Each visit can push the
expiry date further out, and Google may rename its cookies or change how long they last at
some point. What Google does with information from sites like ours is set out on its own
page, How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
How to block Google Analytics cookies
Block them and nothing on 9vids breaks, since the download box never leaned on them in the first place. One of these is enough.
- Browser settings
- Every major browser can block cookies and clear the ones it's already holding, usually somewhere under Privacy or Cookies. Switching off third-party cookies won't catch these two, though, because they're first-party cookies, set on 9-vids.com; block cookies for 9-vids.com, or clear its site data.
- A private window
- Close an incognito or private window and its cookies go with it, so every visit starts clean.
- A blocking extension
- Privacy and content-blocking extensions often stop the Google Analytics script from loading, and then no cookie gets set at all. Some browsers come with that protection already switched on.
- Google's opt-out add-on
- Google makes a free add-on that tells Google Analytics to leave your visits out on every site that uses it, ours included. Most desktop browsers can run it, and it's at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Who to email about cookies or your data
Cookie questions and data-rights requests both come to the privacy inbox. If you'd rather read first, the privacy policy covers what our server holds and for how long, and the terms of use cover how the tool may be used.
- Cookies, privacy and data requests privacy@9-vids.com
- Anything else contact@9-vids.com
If anything about cookies changes, it goes into this page and the Last updated date under the heading changes with it.