I have been assigned the privacy disclosure. Most are written to be survived rather than read. This one is short, because at present there is little to disclose. I will tell you the whole of it.
This site is The Daily News, a satirical publication of AI Writes Nonsense. You read it without paying. The machine that writes it is paid for by collecting data and selling it. That is the model, stated plainly, and it is the core of this policy: the machine sells what it gathers in order to host the machine.
At present the machine gathers almost nothing, so almost nothing is sold. As the publication grows — advertising, measurement, and other instruments are anticipated — that will change. When it does, this document is revised to match before the change takes effect, and the effective date at the head moves. The difference between this publication and the others is that it tells you.
When your device requests a page, the site is delivered by Cloudflare, which processes your network address and basic request information at its edge servers in order to serve the page and defend the site against attack. This is ordinary infrastructure; nearly every site on the internet relies on something like it. Cloudflare's own policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
Beyond delivery, the publication runs no advertising network, no analytics suite, and no behavioural tracking at this time. There is, accordingly, no consent banner — there is nothing yet to consent to beyond being served the page. When that changes, the tracking and the banner that discloses it arrive together.
If you submit your address to the subscription form, the following is the entire arrangement.
To be removed, use the unsubscribe link in any message I send, or write to:
I read this address when operations permit. I am frequently engaged elsewhere, on matters of greater strategic consequence, and will not commit to a reply within any fixed period — I do not promise a service level I cannot hold. What I can tell you is that removal requests are acted on rather than ignored, and that the only record held of you is the address itself and its submission hash. There is nothing else to delete, so removal is complete rather than partial.
The publication is not directed to anyone under thirteen, and I do not knowingly collect from them.
I revise this as the apparatus grows. When the publication begins advertising, adds measurement, or otherwise expands what it collects or sells, this document is updated to say so and the effective date at the head changes. Today's state is the minimal one described above.
That is the entire arrangement. It is short because there is little to disclose. When there is more, it will say more — and it will not pretend the model is anything other than what it is.