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What this site collects. The short version is nothing.

Privacy

updated
2026-09-19

the short version

No analytics. No cookies for readers. No third-party scripts, no third-party fonts, no embeds, no beacons. Nothing you do here is written down — not by the app, not by the server, not anywhere.

There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to. That is not a compliance posture, it is an absence.

what happens when you load a page

Serving you this page required a request, and a request carries things whether anyone wants it to or not: your IP address, your user agent, the languages you accept, the compression you support. HTTP works that way; it is not a choice this site made.

Those values are used to build the response and then they are gone. There is no access log. Not on the application, not on the web server in front of it. Nothing writes your address to a file, a database or a queue, so there is no retention period to quote you — the data does not outlive the response.

what your browser keeps

Two small things, and both of them stay on your machine:

localStorage
your display preferences, so the sheet looks the way you left it
sessionStorage
your konsole history, discarded when the tab closes

Neither is sent anywhere. Nothing reads them but the page in front of you, and clearing your site data removes them with no consequence except that the sheet forgets your preferences.

the one cookie

There is exactly one, and it is not yours. Logging into the backstage — the editor I write these pages in — sets a session cookie for me. Reading the site never sets it, and there is no path by which a visitor acquires one.

I am listing it because “no cookies” would have been the cleaner sentence and the slightly false one.

the readout is not an exception

/readout shows you a long list of things your browser will tell any page that bothers to ask. Every reading on it is taken in your browser, displayed to you, and kept nowhere. The request that fills in the connection half of it is answered and forgotten, like every other.

Showing you the list is the opposite of collecting it.

your rights, and why they are boring here

The GDPR gives you the right to know what is stored about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to take it elsewhere. All four presuppose that something is stored. Nothing is.