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Abdessamad Derraz
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A search that found nothing sent any short text, which a name could be. Its words now go out only as a file name or a hash, every other search is counted as "other" without them.
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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 we count
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No cookies. No account. Nothing is stored on your device, and nothing
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links a visit to a person.
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## On this site
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When a page opens, your 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 you came from, by its domain only (`google.com`, `reddit.com`).
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GoatCounter reads the browser name and the country from that request. It does
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not keep your 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 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. Any other search is counted as "other", without its words;
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- the answer to "Did this page help?".
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Not sent: your screen size, your language, a search that found results.
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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 your 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 nothing back. It downloads files from GitHub, which sees
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those requests as it sees any download.
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## Search engines
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Google and Bing tell us which searches showed the site and how often it was
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clicked. They report totals, from their own records, never from your
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browser.
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