Backlit Privacy Statement

This site is hosted on Neocities, whose data-handling disclosure can be found in the platform's main Privacy Policy.

As a separate entity, the administrator of this individual site does not implement tracking technologies, or any other third party resources, including analytics routines, remote fonts, sharing and social media widgets, remote pixels, ad-tech, and content delivery networks.


JAVASCRIPT

This blog is designed to render at optimum quality regardless of whether the visitor enables or disables JavaScript. Some functionality, such as the search routine, relies on JavaScript, but this is only a small site, and you can easily browse all posts from the home page. The search, it should be stressed, is home made and interfaces directly with the site data in a single file on Neocities. It does not submit any data to an external search provider.

I don't intend at any stage to present a compromised reading experience to anyone who, like me, disables JavaScript as a standard browsing policy. JavaScript is now the WWW's number one tracking facilitator, and it's vastly more powerful in its surveillance capability than cookies. Indeed, within the new first-party cookie-tracking system, JavaScript actually creates and reads the cookies. Disabling JavaScript also significantly improves security. I encourage people to switch JavaScript off, and will always do everything possible to accommodate anyone who does so.


SINGLE-SOURCE STATEMENT

With third-party cookies heading into the sunset, most online tracking is migrating to various forms of third-party page content. So-called 'single-source' sites, whose pages are served from one domain, matching that in the browser's URL bar, are now rare. The great majority of the Web properties we visit are heavily multi-source, with all manner of third-party presences embedded into the pages themselves. Those third-party page embeds, be they images, fonts, buttons, scripts, or whatever else, serve the same purpose as third-party cookies, tailing us around the Web, everywhere we go.

This blog is single source, meaning that everything on its pages is hosted by Neocities itself.


LINKS

Hyperlinks on the pages of this blog are added according to their value in referencing information, and not based on the privacy policies of the domains on which they reside. Therefore, the links may lead to domains with aggressive tracking policies. You should not follow them if you find this unacceptable.