We want to know which stories are read and whether readers come back. We do not want to know who you are, what you had for breakfast or what you looked at on Amazon. This page lists everything the site counts.
The pages you read, the site or app that sent you here, your country, the kind of device, browser and screen, roughly how long you stayed, your clicks on the site's own buttons and links (the menu, votes, sources, topics, the Telegram channel) and what you search for on this site.
We count with Umami, which runs on our own server at analytics.el1fe.com. It sets no cookies and keeps nothing in your browser, and your IP address is not stored. If your browser sends Do Not Track, you are not counted at all.
The first time you visit, the site asks whether it may count you as a returning reader. If you say yes, your browser keeps a random number that links your visits, so we can see that someone came back and what they read. It says nothing about who you are. If you say no, or do not answer, your browser keeps nothing and every visit is counted on its own. With Global Privacy Control on, the site does not ask and counts you anonymously only.
No ads, no advertising trackers, no third-party cookies, no selling or sharing of what we count. A website cannot see your browsing history, your other tabs or what you do on other sites, and we would not want to.
When you vote "Good read", the site sets a cookie with a random number, so one reader counts once. When you report an error, the text you send goes to the publisher and is kept with the correction. Your choice of the day or night edition and your answer about returning readers stay in your own browser.
Questions about any of this go to editor@dailyinference.news.