Privacy Policy
Hi! My name is Anders Eidesvik and I run this website alone. I'm the data controller for it, and you can reach me at anders.eidesvik@gmail.com. Since I don't like being tracked online myself, I've built the site to collect as little as possible. This page describes exactly what that means in practice.
Visitor statistics
I use Plausible Analytics, which doesn't use cookies and doesn't follow you across other websites. It gives me anonymous aggregate numbers:
- Number of visitors and which articles are read
- Whether people use mobile or desktop
- Which country visitors come from (general)
- Traffic sources (Google, LinkedIn, etc.)
To make this work, your browser sends your IP address to Plausible, along with the page address and which site you came from. Plausible uses the IP address only to tell one visit from another, then discards it — it's never stored and never shown to me. I don't receive names, email addresses or IP addresses, and nothing here identifies you personally.
What's stored in your browser
The site sets no advertising or tracking cookies. It does store two small things on your own device, which stay there and are never sent to me:
- Your choice of light or dark mode, so the site looks the way you left it when you come back.
- A marker for articles you've opened in this browser tab, so the read counter below doesn't count the same article twice. It's deleted when you close the tab.
There is also one real cookie, but only I ever get it: I can set it on my own machine so that my own visits are left out of the read counters. Ordinary readers never receive it.
Read counter
Each article has a read counter. When you open an article, your browser tells my server which article it was, and the server adds one to that article's total. The only thing kept is a single number per article — not who read it, when, or in what order. Nothing links the count back to you.
Who else handles data
Running a website means someone has to serve it. These are the companies involved:
- Vercel hosts the site. Like every web host, its servers see your IP address when you request a page, and keep it briefly in access logs for operations and security.
- Sanity stores the articles themselves, and the read counter totals.
- Plausible handles the visitor statistics described above.
Third-party content
Some articles contain embedded material from elsewhere — YouTube videos, posts from X/Twitter or Truth Social, or interactive charts. Such content is fetched directly from the service it comes from as soon as you open the article, without you having to click anything. That service then receives your IP address and the address of the page, and may set its own cookies and collect data under its own privacy policy, which I have no control over. YouTube videos are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, which holds off on tracking until you actually press play. Most articles contain no embeds at all, and each embed is clearly visible in the article so you can see when one is there.
Why?
As a writer, it's motivating to see whether people actually read what I write, and which AI topics engage the most. This helps me write about what you care about.
Your rights
Because I keep only aggregate numbers, there is in practice no personal data of yours for me to look up, correct or delete — I have no way to find "your" data, since none of it is tied to you. If you think I've got that wrong, or you have any other question, write to me at anders.eidesvik@gmail.com and I'll answer.
You also have the right to complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) if you believe the site handles personal data improperly. See datatilsynet.no.
More about Plausible: plausible.io/privacy • Last updated: September 20, 2026