Privacy & cookies

This page explains exactly what netizenspill stores about you. The short version: you can read and comment here without an account, and we never ask for your name or e-mail.

Commenting without an account

The first time you open the site, your browser is given a long random key. It is stored in a cookie that scripts on the page cannot read, and it never leaves your browser.

When you comment or react, the server takes that key, runs it through a one-way hash together with a secret, and stores only the result — a 16-character id such as `7f3a…`. That id is what makes all your comments show up under the same handle.

• The random key itself is never stored on the server, so the id cannot be turned back into it.
• There is no name, no e-mail, no account, and no password.
• Nobody — including us — can tell who is behind an id.
• Clear your cookies and you get a brand-new identity. Your old comments stay, they simply stop being yours.
• You can view, copy or replace your key at any time on the anonymous ID page.

What else is stored with a comment

The comment text, the time, and a salted hash of your IP address that is re-salted every day. The IP hash exists only to stop floods and spam bursts; it is not readable as an IP address and it stops matching after 24 hours.

Cookies we set

• `ns_uid` — the anonymous key described above. Two years.
• `ns_admin` — only if you sign in to the CMS as an editor.

That is the complete list of cookies this site sets by itself.

Analytics

Analytics are only active if a snippet has been configured by the site owner. Where one is, its provider's own policy applies in addition to this page.

Your requests

Because comments are not tied to any personal detail, we generally cannot look an account up for you. If you want a specific comment removed, use the report button under it or the contact page with a link to the comment.