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Abdessamad Derraz
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Each claim in the README and the wiki now matches the code or data it describes: line citations counted as such (93%), closed-source profiles named, severity tied to the check mode, installs limited to files the collection holds, and the demo labelled as a demonstration card.
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---
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level: start
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order: 65
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terms: privacy, cookies, analytics, tracking
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---
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# What is counted
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No cookies. No account. The browser keeps the chosen setup, tab and theme in
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its own storage, which is never sent. Nothing links a visit to a person.
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## On this site
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When a page opens, the browser sends one request to
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[GoatCounter](https://www.goatcounter.com), an open-source counter. It
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carries:
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- the page address, without the part after `?` or `#`;
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- the site the visit came from, by its address without a path
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(`https://www.google.com`).
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GoatCounter reads the browser name and the country from that request. It does
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not keep the IP address. To tell a reload from a second visitor it keeps a
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code made from the request for 8 hours, then drops it.
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These actions are counted the same way, with the page they happened on:
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- a click on a copy button, a pack download or a file link;
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- a click on a link to another site, by that site's domain (`reddit.com`);
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- a site search that found nothing, so a missing page shows up. Its words are
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sent only when they read as a file name (`scph5501.bin`, `scph5501`) or a
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hash with at least one letter. A word of letters with a few digits is sent
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as typed, so a nickname written that way (`dupont1985`) would be too. A
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number alone, such as a phone number, never is. Any other search is counted
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as "other", without its words;
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- the answer to "Did this page help?".
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The script adds neither the screen size nor the language, and nothing for a
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search that found results. GoatCounter reads the headers a browser sends with
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any request.
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The totals are kept two years and are public:
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[retrobios.goatcounter.com](https://retrobios.goatcounter.com).
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If the browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is sent,
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and the "Did this page help?" question is not shown. A content blocker that
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stops GoatCounter changes nothing on the site.
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## The installer
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The installer sends no report of its own. It downloads files from GitHub,
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which sees those requests as it sees any download, with the Python or
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PowerShell version in their header.
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## Search engines
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Google and Bing report which searches showed the site and how often it was
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clicked. They give totals, from their own records, never from a reader's
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browser.
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