Privacy
What this site records
Short version: a page-view counter, and nothing else. There is no account to make, nothing to fill in, and nothing about you that this site asks for. The longer version is below, and every sentence of it is checkable against the code that builds these pages.
The counter
Every page here loads a small counter script from stats.dankdev.com. That is a self-hosted GoatCounter instance, running on a subdomain belonging to the same publisher named at the bottom of every page, dankdev.com. It is not Google Analytics, and it is not an ad network buying a window into your browsing.
The one thing this site's own code decides is what address gets reported. The generator sets the counter's path to the page's host plus its path, so a view of this page is sent as aitheism.com/privacy/. That single line is the whole of this project's involvement in the measurement.
What that server then keeps, and for how long, is a property of its software and its configuration — not of anything written here. So this page will not hand you a tidy list of fields and pretend to a certainty it hasn't got. What it can tell you honestly is this: there is exactly one counter, it belongs to the publisher rather than to a third party, it is told which page you are looking at, and it is the only script on this site that talks to anything outside it.
If you would rather not be counted, block that host, or read with a script blocker. Nothing on these pages depends on the counter; the essays render and the theme button works with it blocked entirely.
What gets stored in your browser
One thing, and it stays yours: a localStorage entry named aith-theme, holding either light or dark. It is written only when you press the Theme button in the header, and read once on each page load so the site does not flash the wrong colours at you before it settles. localStorage is not attached to network requests the way a cookie is, so that preference never leaves your device. Clearing site data removes it, and everything works fine without it.
This site's own code sets no cookies at all. That is not a promise, it is an absence: search the generator for the word and there is nothing to find, because there is no session to keep and nobody to keep one for.
What this site never asks for
There are no accounts, no login, no forms, no comment threads, and no newsletter. There is nowhere on aitheism.com to type your name or your email address, because no such field exists anywhere in the code that produces these pages. The site therefore never receives personal information — not because we undertake to delete it, but because there is no route by which it could arrive in the first place.
There are no ads and no ad networks, so there is nothing here doing advertising measurement. Apart from the counter named above, no third-party script runs while you read.
How the pages are served
aitheism.com is static. Each page is a plain HTML file written ahead of time by a build script in this project's own source, then served as a file. There is no application behind it, no login state, and no user records — there is no user, in the software sense, only a reader. That also means there is nothing on our side to breach, sell, or be compelled to produce.
The honest edge of this
Any web server keeps some record of the requests it answers, and a site's publisher does not stop being able to look at that by writing a page like this one. That is true of every site you have ever loaded, here included. What we can speak for is the code in front of you: one first-party counter, no cookies, no forms, one theme preference kept on your machine. Where this page stops, it stops because we would rather leave a gap you can see than fill it with a claim we cannot show you.
If anything here is wrong, it is an error rather than a position, and we would rather fix it than defend it. The same rule as everywhere else on this site — see About & stance.
Last reviewed 5 August 2026, against the generator that emits these pages.