Privacy

The short version: this site counts visits, and that is the whole of its curiosity about you. No advertising, no cookies, no third-party scripts, no accounts, no forms.

The counter is a small script running on this site’s own hardware. It records the page, the referring link, and roughly what browser and screen you arrived with — no cookie, nothing stored in your browser. To avoid counting you twenty times in an afternoon, it derives a short-lived fingerprint from your IP address and user-agent, salted with a value that rotates on a timer; the IP itself is never stored, and once the salt turns over the old fingerprint matches nothing. So the numbers can say how many people read something today — never who, and never that you were here last week too. Counts older than a year are deleted.

Separately, the web server keeps a standard access log — timestamp, IP, path, user-agent — as an operational and security record: on disk, never joined against the counts, never assembled into a profile, never sold. The telemetry API stores sensor readings from devices, not anything about the people reading this.

No panel for managing tracking preferences, because there is nothing to switch off: no cookie to refuse, no identifier that outlives the day, no profile accumulating anywhere. Block the script and the site behaves exactly as before; I will have counted one reader fewer.