No tracking. No broken rights.
This site doesn't use analytics or trackers because privacy is more important than optimization.
My site does not collect any user tracking data. This isn’t for lack of user analytics experience, after all I deal with user data, SEO, and now AEO/GEO nearly every week at work. Rather, it is because I believe the way users’ behaviors and identities are tracked, collected, and stored nowadays have become incredibly invasive and unethical. It is more important that I protect your privacy — even if you don’t care* — than know how you used my site.
*Privacy extends beyond your own space and identity, especially when your passive consent can speak for others in cases of advertising pixels (like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google’s DoubleClick).
The historical American perspective on privacy… was born out of two formative legacies. The first was the east coast “Puritan” legacy, a theological view which held that private life should be public life (and if there was something in your life you wanted to keep private, it obviously must have been some form of filthy sin). The other was the west coast “frontier” legacy, the mythology of an endless land, which you had the freedom to make your own, and do what you wanted to do, without permission or consent.
— From Understanding Privacy by Heather Burns (2022)