Hi, I’m Steve.
I use Linux, and self-host a lot of the services I depend on. I value your privacy just like I value mine.
For this reason, I’ve opted to not use Google Adsense, Google Analytics, Google Fonts, or any other Google service on this site. Instead I am using Cloudflare Analytics since it’s privacy focused, doesn’t use cookies or localStorage, and I’m using Cloudflare anyway.
Cloudflare Turnstile, which is a Google reCAPTCHA alternative with a usability and privacy focus, is also used to reduce spam comments. You will only need to interact with it when posting comments. Cloudflare is also blocking AI crawlers and scrapers from accessing this site.
Fonts and other assets are served locally, to reduce the amount of third-party requests made by the site; and FLoC is disabled on this site (thanks Clean up the web!).
Thanks for reading!
Steve.