This website does not track you.
It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.
Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.
I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.
Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).
I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.
January 26, 2013 at 1:37 pm
That’ll hurt them if it’s pursued.
January 26, 2013 at 2:05 pm
One can only hope.
January 26, 2013 at 4:53 pm
It would lock me out and everyone who wants to knows me. Since they never explain themselves who can fathom why it was done. To squeeze people for money by offering a buy back? Just a high level boss adding odious procedures so it can be reported that progress and changes are always being made? Part of a counter-productive strategy to squelch the use of the platform to game other parts of the internet with rigged counts, views, contaminated search and astro-turf? Or all of the above.
January 26, 2013 at 6:16 pm
What better than verified names and addresses so they can better spam you?
I almost never log on there, and my page is mostly blog posts and scenery photos, with a few comments and the like from years ago. They want me scan in my social, that’s when I turn my back, which is already three-quarters turned, all the way on them.