Privacy

Overkill has no accounts, no ads, no forms and no cookies. It does keep an anonymous tally of which pages get read, so we know which overkills to draw next.

What gets counted

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights. Each page view sends the page address, the site that linked you here, your rough location (country and region), your browser, operating system and device type, and how fast the page loaded. We only ever see these as totals, like “40 people read the GPS page today.”

We also count three kinds of click: the “Send this to someone” button, “Random overkill”, and source links under the facts. Each one records only which page it happened on (and, for a source, which website it points to), never who clicked.

What does not happen

No cookies are set, and nothing is saved in your browser for tracking. Nobody builds a profile of you, follows you to other sites, or sells anything about you. To tell one visit from another, Vercel uses a short lived hash of the request that it throws away after 24 hours; we never see it or your IP address.

Why there is no cookie banner

Cookie banners ask permission to track you or store things on your device that you did not ask for. We do neither, so there is nothing to ask about (the only thing saved is a setting you picked yourself; see below). If we ever add something that needs your permission, we will ask first and make saying no as easy as saying yes.

The one thing we do keep

If you flip the light or dark mode switch, that choice is saved in your own browser so the page opens the way you like it. It never leaves your device; clear your site data to forget it.

Blocking it anyway

Content blockers that block analytics work fine here, and the site behaves the same without it.

Sources: Vercel Web Analytics privacy; Speed Insights privacy