Cookies and storage

What this site stores

Where	What	How long
Cookie __vdpl	Set by Vercel, our host, on each page you open: which version of the site you loaded, so that a page left open keeps talking to the same version after we change it. It holds nothing about you.	Until you close the browser.
Cookie widsith_session	Keeps you signed in with Battle.net: a random code our server recognises. It holds nothing about you, and only a scrambled copy of it is kept on the server.	30 days, or until you sign out.
Cookie widsith_signin	Only while you sign in: matches Battle.net’s answer to the browser that asked, and remembers the page to come back to.	Ten minutes at most; deleted when you return.
IndexedDB widsith	The recordings you opened in this browser, and a summary of each for the shelf; with each, the site’s own line from the last check of the armory’s counters against it. Signed in, the characters you keep are also here as this browser’s copy.	Until you remove them or clear site data.
Local storage wj.view	What the replay shows and hides in each place. It replaced wj.filter, which is read once and then left alone.	Until cleared.
Local storage wj.journal	Whether the replay’s journal was open.	Until cleared.
Local storage wj.sheet	Whether the replay’s character sheet was folded.	Until cleared.
Local storage wj.sheetSections	Which parts of the character sheet are open.	Until cleared.
Local storage widsith.tallies	Which totals the character sheet shows.	Until cleared.
Local storage site.mode	Which game you looked at last, so the site opens on it.	Until cleared.
Local storage site.follows.v1	The characters and players you follow, for your feed. Signed in, the list is kept with your account too.	Until you unfollow or clear site data.
Session storage site.preview	That you are looking at the sample runs, so moving between pages keeps them.	Until the tab is closed.
Local storage site.theme	Light, or Auto to follow your system, when you chose one in the footer.	Until you choose Dark again or clear site data.
Local storage site.storage-notice.v1	That you have seen the storage notice, so it doesn’t ask again.	Until cleared.
Local storage wj.signedIn	That you were signed in when this browser last asked, so the front page can open on your home straight away. The sign-in cookie still decides.	Until you sign out.

All of these are strictly for the site to work the way you left it. The sign-in cookies go only to our own server, which uses them to know it’s you, and the version cookie only to our host; everything else is read by no one but your own browser.

Third parties

When you watch a replay, open a character’s page, or see the Recently list (on the home page and the pages about a quest, an item or a player), the item, quest and creature tooltips come from Wowhead’s script, loaded from wow.zamimg.com, which asks nether.wowhead.com for each name. When we last checked, on 14 October 2026, it set no cookies and stored nothing in your browser. Wowhead can change its script at any time, and what it does is covered by their privacy policy, as is their own site if you follow a link there. In a replay, and anywhere else a character’s face is shown (the front door, the leaderboards, and a quest’s or an item’s page), character portraits load from Blizzard’s image servers. Those servers see your IP address, as any image host does. So do mount pictures, gear and item icons, and the achievement icons on a character’s page. What the armory says of a character is fetched by our own server, not by your browser, and the privacy page says how long it is kept. The map art and the class icons load from our own storage, which Vercel serves for us, not from Blizzard, and they set no cookies. Wowhead’s script loads only inside a replay and on a character’s page, so the front door, the leaderboards, and a quest’s or an item’s page load nothing from Wowhead. These pages load nothing from either. Page views are counted by Vercel Web Analytics, a script served from our own address that sets no cookie and keeps nothing in your browser; the privacy page says what it counts. There are no advertising scripts anywhere on Widsith.

Clearing it

A recording you only watched, without keeping it, goes with “Forget it” on its card or on the character’s page.Signing out takes this browser’s copies of the characters you keep, which stay on Widsith for when you sign in again. Clearing this site’s data in your browser’s settings removes everything on this page at once. What is kept on our servers, and how to delete it, is on the Your data page.