Digital Sovereignty

Keep Your Trail

Every site you open can leave a small file in your browser and read it back later, on its own pages and, through the companies it lets in, on other people’s. Joined up, those reads are a trail of you: where you went, when, and on which device. Whoever holds the trail holds power over you. It is yours to keep.

Step 1

What This Browser Holds

Your browser’s own answers, read here and sent nowhere. A page can only see what its own site has stored; the rest of your trail is behind the settings in step 2.

Cookies in this browser
Needs JavaScript to read
Global Privacy Control
Needs JavaScript to read
Cookies from this site
Needs JavaScript to read
Items this site has stored
Needs JavaScript to read

This site sets no cookies. What it stores is what you asked it to keep, such as your passport and request clock on the citizenship page. Clearing removes those too.

Step 2

Close the Door

Third-party cookies are the ones that follow you from site to site. Block them in your browser’s settings, then clear what is already there. Yours is open.

Samsung InternetOn Galaxy phones

Block

  1. Open the phone's Settings app and tap Apps.
  2. Tap Samsung Internet, then Samsung Internet settings.
  3. Tap Sites and downloads, then Site permissions, then Cookies.
  4. Choose Block third-party cookies. Block all cookies goes further, and some sites will stop working.

Clear

  1. In Samsung Internet, tap the menu at the bottom right, then Settings.
  2. Tap Personal browsing data, then Delete browsing data.
  3. Choose what to delete, tap Delete data, then Delete.

From Samsung UK support. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

ChromeOn Android phones

Block

  1. Tap More (the three dots, top right), then Settings.
  2. Tap Site settings, then Third-party cookies.
  3. Choose Block third-party cookies.

Clear

  1. Tap More, then Settings, then Privacy and security, then Delete browsing data.
  2. Choose a time range, tick Cookies and site data, and tap Delete data.

From Google Chrome Help. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

FirefoxOn Android phones

Block

  1. Tap the menu (three dots), then Settings.
  2. Under Privacy and security, tap Enhanced Tracking Protection.
  3. Choose Strict. It blocks more trackers than Standard, and may break parts of some sites.

From Mozilla Support. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

SafariOn iPhone

Block

  1. Open Settings, tap Apps, then Safari, then Advanced.
  2. Turn on Block All Cookies and tap Block All. This also removes the cookies and website data already there.

Clear

  1. Open Settings, tap Apps, then Safari.
  2. Tap Clear History and Website Data, choose the time frame, and confirm.

From Apple Support. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

ChromeOn computers

Block

  1. Select More (top right), then Settings.
  2. Select Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies.
  3. Select Block third-party cookies.

Clear

  1. Select More, then Delete browsing data.
  2. Choose All time, tick Cookies and other site data, and select Delete data.

From Google Chrome Help. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

Microsoft EdgeOn computers

Block

  1. Open Settings and more (top right), then Settings.
  2. Choose Privacy, search, and services, then Cookies.
  3. Turn on Block third-party cookies.

Clear

  1. In the same Privacy, search, and services page, find Clear browsing data and choose what to clear.
  2. Pick a time range, tick Cookies and other site data, and select Clear now.

From Microsoft Support. Menus move between versions; if a name differs, search the browser's settings for “cookies”.

Step 3

Your Right to Say No

United Kingdom

Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as substituted on 5 February 2026 by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: no one may store information on your device, or read what is stored there, without your consent, given after clear and comprehensive information. Schedule A1 sets out the exceptions: carrying a communication, storage strictly necessary for a service you asked for, and statistics or appearance, the last two only if you are told and given a simple, free way to object. Paragraph 2(3) of the Schedule counts the controls you set on your browser among the ways you give consent. Complaints go to the Information Commission. The text.

European Union

Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, 2002/58/EC: storing or reading information on your device is allowed only with your consent, after clear and comprehensive information, unless it is strictly necessary for a service you asked for or for carrying a communication.

California

Section 7025 of title 11 of the California Code of Regulations: a business must treat an opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, as your request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information. Step 1 shows whether your browser sends one.

Claim What They Took

An online identifier, a cookie among them, can be personal data (Recital 30 of the GDPR). What a company built from your trail is yours to ask for: write the letter that claims it.

What a Page Cannot Do

No web page can change your browser’s settings, see other sites’ cookies, or delete them; only you can, in step 2. A browser can also follow you without cookies, by its fingerprint or by the account you are signed in to. Blocking cookies cuts the trail; it does not end it.

We never sell a citizen’s data, read what companies return to you, or keep what you type. The Digital Proclamation is the whole constitution.

General information, checked against each browser maker’s own help pages and the law as it stood on 1 November 2026. Not legal advice.