Cookies and browser storage
The website sets no cookies. It keeps up to three entries in your browser's local storage, described below; none is an identifier.
This policy covers the website. It doesn't cover the Aurora apps for Android, Windows and Linux (beta), or the services you connect to them.
- Cookies
- None
- Local storage
- Up to three keys
- Sent anywhere
- Nothing. Local storage stays in your browser.
- Session storage
- Not used
- IndexedDB
- Not used
What the website stores
- localStorage, this site only
Local storage stays in your browser. Unlike a cookie, it isn't sent to the website's host with each request, and the site never uploads it.
| Key | What it holds | How long | In this browser now |
|---|---|---|---|
aurora:github:v1 | Public GitHub data: repository counts, recent commits and contributors, releases with per-file download counts, and refresh or retry times. When a page with live GitHub data opens: Home, Revision history, Download. | Until replaced or cleared | — |
aurora:theme | "light" or "dark". Only after you use the Night button. | Until you clear it | — |
aurora:motion | "reduced" or "full". Only after you use the Reduce motion button. | Until you clear it | — |
How long it stays
- fresh for ten minutes
The GitHub copy counts as fresh for ten minutes. The site keeps older results as a fallback, so ten minutes is a refresh interval, not a deletion deadline. The entry stays until the site replaces it, you clear it, or your browser removes it.
The two preferences stay until you clear them. Pressing the same button again changes the value; it doesn't remove the key.
Clear or block storage
Open your browser's site settings for this website and clear its site data, or use the Remove button above. You can also block site storage in browsers that support it. The website keeps working without storage, but live GitHub numbers may load more slowly or reach GitHub's request limit sooner.
Searches, filters and figure controls don't create saved preferences. Your browser may separately cache page files, fonts and images to load them faster.
GitHub and hosting services
Live statistics and contributor pictures connect to GitHub. Links for downloads, issues and contributions take you to GitHub, where its own cookies and privacy rules apply. Porkbun hosts this website and may apply delivery or security measures separately from the site's code.
The privacy policy covers outside requests and data handling, and measures every request its page makes.
Typefaces: Archivo, Chivo Mono and Noto, SIL Open Font License. Animation: GSAP, under the GreenSock Standard License, which isn't an open-source licence. Smooth scrolling: Lenis, MIT. The website's own code is Apache-2.0.