Privacy
The short version: everything you save while reading stays on your device, and the only thing that leaves is a count of pages opened. The long version is below, because a promise nobody can check is not worth much.
What stays on your device
Every line you bookmark, every if-then plan you set, every wave you ride out, the days you have read, whether you are stopping or cutting back, and whether the lamp is on night or day — all of it is written to one key in this browser's local storage, called first30days, and read back from there.
- There is no account. No email address, no password, nothing to sign up for and nothing to close.
- There is no sync and no server copy. What you saved on your phone is not on your laptop, because there is nowhere in between for it to pass through.
- Nothing you type is transmitted. The if-then sentence you write, the lines you keep, the door a craving came through — none of it is sent anywhere, ever, including to us.
- Pressing the hard-day button is not an event. The site does not measure it, log it or count it. Nobody is told you had a hard night.
- You can erase all of it in one tap, from your pocket. That is a real delete: there is no copy anywhere to restore it from, which is the same promise read from the other end.
Clearing your browser data clears it too. That is the trade for keeping it on the device — nothing to lose to a breach, and nothing to recover if you wipe the browser.
What leaves the device
This site counts page views with Google Analytics 4. What that sends to Google is the address of the page you are on, the address you came from, your rough location (country or region, from your IP - the full address is not stored), and coarse device facts like screen size and browser. It is set up to collect the minimum that still counts a visit: Google Signals is off, ad personalisation is off, and no event is ever sent for anything you do on the page.
Cookies. Analytics sets two, _ga and
_ga_<id>, which do nothing but tell one visit from
another. The site itself sets none. In the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway,
Iceland and Liechtenstein analytics storage starts denied, so no cookie is
set there at all and the visit is counted without one. That is also why you
have not been shown a consent banner: a modal is the wrong thing to put in
front of someone reading this at 2 a.m., so the site does without the
storage instead of asking for it.
Switching it off. Any content blocker, tracking protection or Google's own opt-out add-on stops it, and nothing on this site breaks when it is blocked - the reading, the timer, the pocket and the printed card all work exactly the same.
What this site does not do
- No advertising, no ad network, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, and nothing sold or shared with anyone.
- No fonts, scripts, images or embeds loaded from anyone else's server — everything on the page comes from this site.
- No profile of you is built, here or anywhere, from what you read.
- No mailing list, no contact form, no comments — nothing on this site collects an address to write back to.
If you are worried about someone seeing this
Reading here leaves the ordinary traces any website leaves on a shared device: an entry in browser history, and the saved pocket itself. A private or incognito window leaves neither — the pocket will not save between visits in that mode, and the site says so rather than failing quietly. If a device is not safely yours, that is the safer way to read this.
How the series itself is written, and what it is and is not, is set out on the about page.