MAKI stores very little in your browser, and none of it is advertising or tracking. There are no third-party analytics or advertising cookies on this site.
maki_token — how the site knows you are signed in. It is httpOnly (script
on the page cannot read it), secure (only sent over HTTPS), and lasts up to 30 days.
Without it you would have to sign in on every page.
Some parts of the site — the Studio and its downloads — check this cookie before the page is served at all, which is why they are unreachable when you are signed out.
Alongside the cookie, some pages keep working state in your browser's local storage: your sign-in token for the app's own requests, which conversation tab you had open, reading position in a comic, and a few interface preferences such as whether the microphone is enabled.
Apart from the one item below, this stays on your device and is never sent anywhere on its own. Clearing your browser data removes it — you would simply sign in again and lose those preferences.
The one item that is sent: a random visitor id this browser makes for itself (maki_vid).
It goes with MAKI's own page-view count, together with the page's address (without anything after a
?), the name of the site that linked you here, and, if you are signed in, your account. No IP
address and no browser details are stored, it is not shared with anyone else, and a browser set to
Do Not Track sends nothing at all.
No advertising cookies. No cross-site tracking. No third-party analytics scripts. Nothing that follows you to other websites.
What MAKI may learn from your use of the product is a separate question, it is off by default, and you control it from your account settings.