Privacy demo
I did not set a cookie.
You have got very good at refusing cookies. You find the reject button, you close the banner, and you move on feeling like you kept something to yourself.
The banner was never the point. Everything on this page was worked out without storing a single thing on your machine, without asking you for a permission, and without you clicking anything at all.
Before any JavaScript ran
Your browser sent these to my server just by asking for the page. There is no way to request a page without them, and blocking scripts does not help.
- IP address
- 216.73.217.83the one thing here I genuinely cannot avoid receiving, because the reply has to reach you
- Roughly where that is
- Columbus, OH, USmy host resolves this from the IP before my code runs
- Browser string
- Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
- Languages you accept
- not sent
- Where you came from
- not sentblank when you type the address or arrive from a private link
Reading your browser…
What I do with it
Nothing. Every value below the server section was computed in your browser and sent nowhere. No request carried it back to me, and I did not write anything to your storage to recognise you later. You can watch that in your network tab.
The one thing I do keep is a page-view count through Vercel’s analytics, which is cookieless. It tells me this page was viewed. It does not tell me it was you.
The point is not that this site is clever. It is that the next site you open can do all of this too, will not show you the list, and will attach it to a profile that follows you. That is the part the cookie banner was never covering.
If you want less of it: a browser that resists fingerprinting is worth far more than refusing cookies. Safari and Firefox both blank several of the values above, and you can see exactly which ones by opening this page in each.
Built as a demo, on a site that also publishes its own data as a signed, readable API.