{"id":1388,"date":"2021-08-02T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/?page_id=1388"},"modified":"2022-02-27T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:00:50","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/privacy-policy","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \"internet\" is built on \"web technologies\", all of which are created by\u00a0<strong>ghouls and gremlins.<\/strong> WordPress is no exception, and the fact I am running it locally is <strong>by no means<\/strong> a complete mitigation of their \"tech enthusiasm\". Therefore, while I will put in a vague effort not to expedite your personal information's journey into the hands of advertisers, I <strong>make no guarantees<\/strong>\u00a0and therefore do not \u2014\u00a0<em>can not<\/em> \u2014 \u201ctake your privacy very seriously\u201d (which is a phrase invented by lawyers to excuse the inexcusable under the shield of false consent and \u201cindustry best-practices\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Remember: a privacy policy <strong>does not give you rights<\/strong>; it only <strong>indemnifies the person who wrote it<\/strong> (i.e. it stops <em>you<\/em> from <em>suing<\/em> them over whatever disturbing shit they're doing).<\/p>\n<p>Until or unless I can find a <em>usable<\/em> blogging software that respects visitors' privacy, I would simply recommend installing some protective software such as <a href=\"https:\/\/ublockorigin.com\/\">uBlock Origin<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/privacybadger.org\/\">Privacy Badger<\/a> (neither sponsored; both <em>good<\/em> software) to help keep the digital smog from metastasizing in your digital lungs into <a href=\"https:\/\/zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/11\/the-gig-economy-2\/#:~:text=and%20another,too%20late!%E2%80%9D\">cyber-cancer<\/a> as rapidly as it would like to until I can get my emissions profile down.<\/p>\n<h2>Potentially privacy-compromising Web Technologies and Services used<\/h2>\n<p>The following list of potentially privacy-compromising demons powering this web site is maintained on a best-effort basis, and links wherever possible to the creators' privacy policy pages. If you find any data leaks on this website not listed below, or can think of mitigations for any of them that I'm not applying (other than \"just own your own <abbr title=\"Autonomous System\">AS<\/abbr> lol\" (which I'm not saying <em>isn't<\/em> on the horizon somewhere)), please let me know; I'd love to have a coffee with you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hosting operated by Namecheap: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namecheap.com\/legal\/hosting\/privacy-policy\/\">https:\/\/www.namecheap.com\/legal\/hosting\/privacy-policy\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>cPanel\/WHM: <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanel.net\/privacy-policy\/\">https:\/\/cpanel.net\/privacy-policy\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WordPress software:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/privacy\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/privacy\/<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Gravatar:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy\/\">https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy\/<\/a><br \/>\n(Note: I have tried to intercept these remote calls by installing the open-source plug-ins <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MatteoManna\/Simple-User-Avatar#readme\">Simple-User-Avatar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/gravatar-proxy\/\">gravatar-proxy<\/a>, but IT'S NOT WORKING and I apologize for the 3rd-party calls. Again, please contact me if you know a simple way to fix this or have any fully offline CMS recommendations that are feature-equivalent to WordPress.)<\/li>\n<li>Akismet Anti-Spam: <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy-notice\/\">https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy-notice\/<\/a><br \/>\n(Commenters' IP addresses <em>are<\/em> sent to them. They are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bullshitting<\/span> when they say that the information they collect \u201c<strong>depends on<\/strong> how the [site owner] sets up Akismet\u2026but <strong>typically includes<\/strong> the commenter\u2019s IP address\u201d. I checked all over: they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do not provide any way for me to configure this<\/span>. At this time, Automattic, Inc. <em>will<\/em> get commenters' IP addresses, which they may share (along with your comment, name, and e-mail) with any random subsidiaries, employees, independent contractors, and third-party vendors they do business with (of course, only after making them agree to a \"privacy policy\" <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CannotKeepASecret\">at least as stringent<\/a> as theirs), as well as to law enforcement (no warrant required\u2014they try to obfuscate that, too, by saying \u201csubpoena, court order, or <strong>other governmental request<\/strong>\u201d), or \u201cwhen [they] believe in good faith\u201d that they will suffer a PR incident for not doing so; the cherry on top of all this is they appear to out-right <em>sell<\/em> everything <em>but<\/em> your IP address to so-called \"firehose\" subscribers who get to do everything they want except get caught hurting their business model by \u201cre-publish[ing] it publicly\u201d.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am on the hunt, obviously, for alternatives, but for now there's such a torrent of god-awful requests streaming in off compromised machines and foreign networks that I'd be <em>cooked<\/em> without protection.<\/li>\n<li>I recommend using an anonymous proxy (or, as people who see too many advertisements call it, a \"vee pee enn\") when commenting for now if this is a concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \"internet\" is built on \"web technologies\", all of which are created by\u00a0ghouls and gremlins. 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