privacy

I count how many people read each essay. That is the whole purpose. There is no advertising, no profiling, no third party, and nothing here is shared with anyone.

What is recorded

For each page view: the page, the site that linked you here, your country and region, and — on essays — how far down you scrolled and roughly how long the page was open and focused.

Nothing is stored on your device. No cookies, no local storage, no fingerprinting script. To avoid counting the same person twice in one day, the server derives a scrambled signature from your IP address and browser using a random key. That key is replaced every day and destroyed within two days, so the signature cannot be linked across days, and your IP address itself is never written down.

Individual records are deleted within two days. What remains is daily totals — how many reads a page had, from which countries — which cannot be traced back to anyone.

What this means in practice

Because the key changes daily, if you come back tomorrow you are a new stranger to it. Several people sharing an address — a household, an office, a privacy relay — look like one person. One person who switches from wifi to mobile data looks like two. The numbers are a rough signal, not a census, and I treat them that way.

Turning it off

You can opt out. This sets a single cookie, which exists only to record that you said no, and the server checks it before recording anything. Sending a Global Privacy Control signal has the same effect.

Turn analytics off for me.

Elsewhere

The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which sees requests in order to serve them. Essays may embed images and video served from this domain. If you email me, I keep the email.