Privacy

No accounts, no ads. LockerGnome doesn’t ask you to sign in and doesn’t show ads. The only cookies are Google Analytics’s, below.

Visit counts. We count page views two ways. Cloudflare Web Analytics uses no cookies and doesn’t track you across sites; it fills the “Most read this week” list. Google Analytics sets its own cookies (_ga) so we can see which stories people are reading right now; Google’s privacy policy covers what it collects, and a browser that blocks it changes nothing on the site.

Email sign-up. The sign-up box sends the address you type to the newsletter service that runs Chris Pirillo’s newsletter; that service’s privacy policy covers it from there. We never see or keep the list.

Your reading choice. If you flip a story to light or dark, your browser remembers that choice on your own device. It never leaves your browser.

Embedded videos and posts. A video in a story is only a picture until you press play. Then it plays from the video host’s privacy-enhanced player. A story that embeds a post from a social network loads that network’s own script to show it, and the network’s privacy policy covers that. Pages without an embedded post never load anything from it.

Sponsors. Buying a sponsor slot runs through a payment processor. Your card goes to it, never to us, and its privacy policy covers it. We keep the brand name, tagline, website and logo you give us, plus the email from your checkout, which never shows on the site. When a sponsorship ends, we delete everything you gave us within a day. A click on a sponsor’s link adds one to that sponsor’s count and records nothing about the reader.

Links out. Stories link to their sources and to share buttons for other sites. Those sites have their own privacy policies once you click through.

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