Samuel Raphael

Privacy

This site counts page views itself. There is no third-party analytics, no advertising, and nothing that follows you to other sites. The counts are private: only I see them.

What is counted

For each page you view:

  • the page's address;
  • the site that linked you here, as its domain only (news.ycombinator.com, say), and any utm_ campaign tags in the link;
  • the kind of device, from the width of the window: phone, tablet or desktop;
  • the country, looked up from your IP address;
  • a visitor code, so that you count once a day however many pages you read. It is made from your IP address, your browser's name and version, and a random value that is replaced every day and then deleted, so the same visitor cannot be linked from one day to the next. After 90 days it is removed from the stored views altogether.

What is not

  • Your IP address is never stored, and neither is anything else that names you.
  • No cookies are set for readers. The only thing kept in your browser is the light or dark theme, if you pick one.
  • If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, nothing is sent at all. Views from bots and from my own browsers are not counted either.
  • Nothing is shared with anyone or sold.

Countries come from IP Geolocation by DB-IP, licensed under CC BY 4.0.