What we know
We want to know whether the digest is useful and whether it reads well on your phone — nothing more. So we measure in the least invasive way we could find: no cookies, no accounts, no personal data, and the numbers published right here in the open.
The short version
- Page views (which editions get read)
- Where you came from (referrer)
- Device type & browser
- Country (never finer)
- Screen size bucket (to check mobile)
- Set cookies or store anything on you
- Collect names, emails, or IPs
- Fingerprint your device
- Track you across other sites
- Sell, share, or run ads
How it works
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and privacy-first: it counts visits in aggregate without identifying anyone. It's the one external request this otherwise fully self-contained site makes — a small script that reports an anonymous page view and nothing else.
Don't want even that? If your browser sends “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control, we don't load the analytics script at all. Nothing to opt out of, nothing to click.
The numbers, in the open
If we measure it, you can see it. These are the same aggregate numbers we look at:
Refreshed daily from Cloudflare. (Live figures land once analytics is switched on.)