What this server records
Every website keeps a log of the requests it receives, and so does this one. This page says what is in ours, what is deliberately kept out, and how long it lasts.
What a request writes down
A server with no record cannot tell a fault from an attack, which is the only reason this log exists. Most of what it holds is not people at all. It is automated scanners probing for software we do not run.
What is kept out of it
- The handle you type. It never travels in a web address, so it never reaches the address bar, the log, or anything on disk.
- Anything you clicked through to. When you check a service, your browser goes there directly. That request is between you and them and does not come back past us, so this server has no record that you checked, or of what you found.
- An unfiltered second copy. The program behind this page writes no request lines of its own, so the log above is the only record of what you asked for. There is no unedited copy kept somewhere else.
What we note that you did
The program writes exactly three kinds of line, and all three are about itself: that it started, that it stopped, and that something in it went wrong. There is no line recording that a page was read, that a handle was entered, or that a request was prepared. The list of things a line here is even allowed to contain has no space for a name, a handle or an identifier, so a future change cannot quietly add one; it would fail rather than log.
Cookies
Our Reddit tool is a separate service on a separate address with its own account and its own sign-in. Its cookies are fixed to that address and are never sent here, and this site sets none of its own, so nothing connects what you do here with what you do there.
Nothing else is watching
No analytics service, no tracking pixel, and no third-party script on any page. Your browser is instructed to refuse them, so a mistake in our own code cannot quietly add one later. The fonts are served from this server for the same reason: loading them from somewhere else would hand your address to a company you did not choose.