What this site records

Short version: this site counts how many people visit and which pages they look at. It does not know who you are, it does not follow you to other websites, and nothing about you is sent to anyone else.

What is recorded when you open a page

What is deliberately NOT recorded

How visitors are counted

To count people rather than page loads, the server combines your IP address, your browser's user-agent and today's date, and runs them through a one-way cryptographic function. The result is a short string of letters and numbers. It cannot be reversed back into your IP address, and because the date is part of it, the same person on two different days produces two unrelated strings.

The site also stores a small identifier in your browser so that a visit which moves between networks — a phone leaving wifi for mobile data — is counted once rather than twice. It contains a random value and nothing else. It is read only by this site, expires after 13 months, and is never sent anywhere.

In Germany and Austria that identifier is not set at all, and counting there relies solely on the scrambled string above. Those countries treat storing anything on a visitor's device more strictly, and this site would rather measure slightly less accurately than ask everyone to dismiss a consent box. Nothing is lost from the count there — only a little precision.

Preferences stored in your browser

Separately from measurement, the site remembers four things you chose yourself, so it can show you the same thing next time: your colour theme, your deposit-fee preference, whether the filter panel is open, and the video player size. These never leave your browser and the server cannot read them.

Who this is shared with

Nobody. The data sits in a database this site owns and is used to produce counts — how many people, which pages, which videos send people where. It is not sold, not shared, and not combined with data from anywhere else.

Two companies necessarily handle traffic on the way here: our hosting provider and our content-delivery network. They process requests so the site can be served; they are not given the measurement data.

How long it is kept

How to opt out

Three ways, all of which work and none of which break the site:

Why there is no cookie banner

Dutch law exempts analytics from consent when it is first-party, not shared with anyone, not used for profiling or advertising, low impact, and disclosed — which is what this page is for. If any of that stops being true, this page will say so before it changes, and a consent request will appear.

Questions

This is a small independent project. If you want your data removed, mention the day you visited and it will be deleted — though be aware there is nothing in it that identifies you, which is rather the point.

Last updated 28 August 2026.