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Cookies
Last updated 1 October 2026
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Videoess uses as few as it can: the essential ones below, a few that remember your settings, and, only if allowed, Google Analytics. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies for ads.
Your choice
In the EU/EEA, the UK and Switzerland, analytics cookies are off until you allow them. Elsewhere they're on unless you turn them off. Either way you can change your mind here at any time.
Analytics cookies are on for you (the default where you are).
Essential cookies
These are needed for the site to work and can't be switched off here.
| Name | What it's for | How long |
|---|---|---|
| videoess_movie_database_session | Keeps you signed in while you use the site | 2 hours after your last visit |
| remember_web_… | Keeps you signed in between visits | 400 days, or until you sign out |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Security: stops other sites from acting as you | 2 hours after your last visit |
| consent | Remembers your analytics choice | 1 year |
Settings
Set only when you change a setting, so the site remembers it.
| Name | What it's for | How long |
|---|---|---|
| region | The country you chose for streaming availability | 1 year |
| services | The streaming services you chose | 1 year |
| lang | The language you picked on the home page | 1 year |
| spoilers | Whether to show spoilers without a click | 1 year |
| theme (stored in your browser, not a cookie) | Light or dark mode | Until you clear it |
Analytics (optional)
Set by Google Analytics when analytics is on for you, to count visits and see which pages are used. Google's advertising and “signals” features are turned off for this site. Turning analytics off above also deletes these cookies.
| Name | What it's for | How long |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics: tells visits apart | 2 years |
| _ga_WGE0Q805B1 | Google Analytics: keeps track of a visit | 2 years |
Videos from YouTube
Trailers and free movies play in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com). Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play; once you do, YouTube may store its own cookies or similar data under Google's privacy policy.
Questions
Email privacy@videoess.com. You can also delete cookies in your browser's settings at any time (you'll be signed out).