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Privacy

Your politics stay with you

Cogito has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Here is everything it keeps, where it keeps it, and which other services see what.

Saved on your device

Quiz result
A cookie called quiz_results holds your quadrant and your two scores, so the news feed can offer Only opposing views. It lasts a year unless you retake the quiz or clear it. Your browser sends it along when you load Cogito’s pages, as it does with any cookie, but Cogito doesn’t save it anywhere.
Theme
Your choice of light or dark mode is kept in your browser’s local storage.

That is all. Cogito sets no other cookies.

What reaches Cogito’s server

Quiz answers
Sent once to calculate your score, then discarded.
Searches
Your search terms and, with the filter on, whether you placed left or right, so the right search can be run. Results for each search are reused for five minutes, but they aren’t tied to you.
Articles you analyze
The link you paste. Cogito’s server fetches that page to read it. Neither the link nor the article’s text is saved.
Technical logs
Like most websites, Cogito keeps short-term server logs to find and fix problems. They can include IP addresses, the pages requested and search terms.

Other services involved

Brave Search
Receives your search terms from Cogito’s server, not from your browser, so it doesn’t see your IP address. With the filter on, the request also names which side’s outlets to favor, which reflects which side you placed on.
Hugging Face
Receives the text of articles you analyze, from Cogito’s server, to run the two AI models.
News sites
Story images load in your browser straight from publishers and from Brave’s image servers, so those sites can see your IP address, as with any image on the web.
Fonts and icons
The site’s typefaces load from Google Fonts. Icons on the Bias Detector load from cdnjs, run by Cloudflare.
Render
Hosts the site and keeps the server logs described above.

Clearing your data

Choose Retake quiz on the quiz page to delete your result, or clear this site’s cookies and data in your browser settings to remove everything at once.

Changes

If this page changes, its Last updated date changes with it.