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Consent-state cookie. A single first-party value stored in your browser's localStorage under the key anxietyresearch.consent.analytics. It records only granted, denied, or absence-of-value (undecided). It is not sent to Google or any other processor and does not identify you.

Google Analytics 4 cookies (only after you accept). When you click "Accept analytics" the Google tag (measurement ID G-EGSF0SBNSK) writes two first-party cookies on the anxietyresearch.org domain:

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Aggregate event measurement. When you click a link to another Shrink Network site, the site sends network_journey_out (destination site, campaign label, and the page you clicked from) and a matching network_journey_in event to the destination site's analytics property. Site search sends only the query length and result count, never the words typed. A missing page sends only the missing address. All of this runs on the same consent gate as pageviews. If you declined analytics, nothing is sent.

Cross-domain measurement within The Shrink Network. After you accept analytics, links from this site to other Shrink Network sites carry a short _gl URL parameter so Google Analytics can count a visit that spans two network sites as one session. It uses the same pseudonymous _ga identifier described above and sets no additional cookie on this site. It is limited to Shrink Network domains and doesn't run if you decline analytics.

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