Privacy
The only thing this site collects from you is how many times a page has been opened. It also fetches fonts from elsewhere, and the host keeps access logs.
In one line — the only thing this site takes from you is a count of how many times a page has been opened. Not who opened it. It also fetches fonts from elsewhere, and the company hosting it keeps access logs.
⚠ The actual policy is the text below “The detailed record starts here.” What follows here is that, in plain terms.
What I collect — one number
| What sites usually have | Here |
|---|---|
| Sign-up | None |
| Forms | None |
| Comments | None |
| Cookies | Not set |
| Anything that recognises you | Not installed |
| View count | ⚠ Counted — this one thing |
The view count is nothing more than adding 1 to “how many times has this page been opened.” What goes up is a single number, and nothing that points at you is stored beside it — I do not know who opened it, where they came from, or whether the same person came back.
⚠ Which means the number is not an accurate statistic. Read it as roughly how many times a page has been opened, nothing more.
One slot is kept in your browser. It stops a refresh during the same visit from counting twice, and it is gone when you close the tab. It is not a cookie and it is never sent to me.
For a long time even this did not exist, because this site has no server — there was no way for it to count itself. Now only the counting lives elsewhere; that is the fourth row in the table below.
But that does not mean no record exists anywhere
The part that matters. Me not collecting is not the same as nothing being recorded.
Opening a page sends requests to four places. And each of them keeps its own records.
| Where | What is passed | Why it is needed |
|---|---|---|
| Where the site is hosted | Your address, the time, browser details | To send you the page |
| Font provider 1 | The same | Latin typefaces |
| Font provider 2 | The same | Korean typefaces |
| Where the count is kept | The same, plus the address of the page you are reading | How many times that page was opened |
⚠ The fourth is called only on documents and the front page. Browsing a section index or AI news today sends no such request at all.
In other words: to use nice typefaces, a visitor’s connection details reach those companies once.
Why bother writing that down
I do not have to. Plenty of sites stop at “we collect nothing,” and that sentence is not a lie.
But a reader hears it as “no record of me exists anywhere.” And that is not true.
Me not collecting and no record existing are different things. Leave the difference unstated and the unstated reading is the flattering one.
So the places I do not control are written down too.
The detailed record starts here
Updated 17 September 2026
What this site collects — one view count
It’s a static site, so there is no server. No accounts, no forms, no comments. It sets no cookies, assigns no visitor identifier, and installs no general web-analytics tool (Google Analytics and the like).
What is collected is a per-page view count, and nothing else. On document pages and the front page a separate counting function (aitry-views.vercel.app) is called, which increments the counter for that address by one. What is stored is a pair — address and cumulative count — with no value that identifies a visitor. There is no per-visitor separation, no return-visit detection and no behavioural tracking.
⚠ As a result the figure is not an accurate visitor statistic. One person opening a page five times counts five times.
One sessionStorage slot is used in the browser to avoid counting the same document twice during one visit. It is deleted when the tab closes and is never transmitted. localStorage and cookies are not used.
Search runs inside your browser — the index is fetched once from this site and filtered locally. What you type is never sent anywhere.
Where records are kept anyway
⚠ My collecting one number does not mean nothing is recorded anywhere. Opening a page makes requests to the four places below.
| Where | What reaches them | Why |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Pages — hosting | IP address · timestamp · browser details | To send you the page |
| Google Fonts | the same | Latin typefaces (Inter · IBM Plex Mono) |
| jsDelivr — CDN | the same | Korean typeface (Pretendard) |
| Vercel — view counting | the same, plus the page address being viewed | The view count for that page |
All four operate under their own privacy policies. The records the first three keep, I neither see nor retain.
⚠ The fourth is different — that account is mine. I deployed the counting function, and request logs exist on that platform. All I take out of it is the cumulative count, but this is not a place where I can say “it is recorded somewhere I cannot see,” so it is written down here.
⚠ The fourth request happens only on document pages and the front page. Section indexes and Just out do not call it.
⚠ Something else held this fourth slot once — Hugging Face, serving card images in Just out. It was removed on 20 August 2026 — the images are now fetched ahead of time, shrunk, and served from here. After that there were three until 17 September 2026, when the view count made it four again. Nothing leaves the table above while you are on this site.
Ads — none at present
As of 19 August 2026, this site carries no advertising.
If Google AdSense is served here in future, the following will apply.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to this site or others.
- Personalised advertising can be turned off at Google Ad Settings.
- Third-party vendor cookies can be declined in bulk at aboutads.info.
⚠ This section gets rewritten on the day ads actually go live — the “none at present” line comes out then. It will not claim ads are running while they are not.
About Just out
Just out gathers titles and links from public places — arXiv, Hugging Face, GitHub, Hacker News, and company blogs.
- It does not use anything about you. What gets collected is decided without reference to the visitor. There is no personalisation and no recommendation.
- Originals are not reproduced here. Only a title, a short quote, and a link back. You read the thing where it lives.
- The “location, estimated” badge on a card is a guess from one self-written profile string on a public account. It has nothing to do with you.
- The image on a paper card is the share card Hugging Face generates for that paper — not the paper’s own figures. Linking the original would make your browser call out to them, so I fetch it, shrink it, and serve it from here. The source is named on every card, and the title links to the original on arXiv.
When it changes, it changes here
If a tracking tool goes in, ads start, or the list of things fetched from elsewhere grows, this page gets corrected starting with its date. On 17 September 2026 the view count was added and this page was corrected as promised — until then it said “three places, no tracking installed.” If this document disagrees with what the site actually does, that is my fault.
Contact
Open a GitHub issue — the link is at the bottom left.