Privacy policy
This site is small, and so is this policy. It is written the same way as everything else here: in simple words, with nothing hidden in the long paragraphs.
The short version
There are no accounts here, no sign-up, no newsletter and no forms. There is nothing for you to fill in, so there is nothing for us to collect.
Two things do involve your data anyway: the server that sends you these pages, and the ads that Google shows on them. Both are explained below.
What the site itself stores
Your light or dark mode choice. When you use the toggle in the header, that choice is saved by your own browser, in something called local storage. It stays on your device, it is never sent to us, and it is not a cookie. Clearing your browser data removes it.
That is the whole list.
What the server sees
The site runs on Cloudflare. Like every web server, it sees the ordinary
technical details of each request: your IP address, which page you asked
for, when you asked for it, and what your browser says about itself.
Cloudflare uses this to deliver the pages, keep the site online, and
block attacks and abuse. It may set a security cookie of its own, usually
named __cf_bm, to tell real visitors apart from bots.
There are no analytics on this site. No Google Analytics, no tracking pixel, no visitor counter, no heatmaps.
Ads
This site shows ads from Google AdSense. That is how it pays for itself.
Google and its partners use cookies and similar device identifiers to choose the ads, to limit how often you see the same one, and to measure whether an ad worked. Depending on your choices, the ads may be personalised — picked using what Google has learned about your interests from your activity on other sites and apps — or non-personalised, picked from the content of the page and a rough idea of your location only.
The important part: Google decides which ads you see and holds that data, not this site. We never see who you are. What Google does with the data is described in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you are asked for your consent before any personalised ads are shown to you. Your answer is stored by Google, not by us.
Your choices
- Change your consent answer. Most versions of Google's consent window leave a small link on the page to open it again. Clearing this site's cookies in your browser also makes the question come back.
- Turn off personalisation across Google, on every site and not just this one, at My Ad Center.
- Block cookies for this site in your browser settings. The articles will still work; only the theme toggle and the ads are affected.
- Use an ad blocker if you prefer. You are welcome here either way, and nothing on this site will nag you about it.
Your rights
If you live in the EU or the UK, the law gives you the right to see what is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to how it is used.
In our case there is almost nothing to ask for: no account, no email address, no profile. For the data Google holds about your ads, use the Google links above, because it is Google that holds it. If you think something has been handled wrongly, you can complain to the data protection authority in your country.
Links to other sites
The articles link to tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and to other people's writing. Once you follow a link, you are on someone else's site and their privacy policy applies, not this one.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it.