$ cat privacy

// what stays on your device

There are no accounts and no cookies. Your theme choice, saved posts and read marker are stored in your browser's localStorage and are never transmitted anywhere. Clearing site data removes them.

The site measures anonymous usage with PostHog (US-hosted): page views, referrers, rough device and browser type, and which blogs readers click through to. No profiles are built for anonymous visitors, session recording is disabled, and nothing follows you across other sites.

// what third parties see

The site is served by Cloudflare, which processes standard request logs (such as IP addresses) to deliver pages and protect against abuse. Post thumbnails load directly from each publisher's servers, so those servers see your IP address when an image loads; the referrer is suppressed. When you open a post, the link carries a utm_source=devreads.fyi parameter so publishers can see that this site sent them a reader. It identifies the site, not you.

// if this ever changes

If the site ever adds ads or a newsletter, this page will describe exactly what that involves before it happens. Questions or concerns: email contact [at] devreads [dot] fyi or open an issue on GitHub.