Privacy policy

Tux Wraith is a Linux publication, and it is built to collect as little personal data as possible. There are no reader accounts, no sign-up forms, and no standalone third-party analytics service. This page explains the small amount of data that is used and why.

What we collect

Anonymous article view counts

When you open an article, the site records an anonymous view so we can see which guides are useful. To avoid counting the same reader repeatedly, a one-way hash is computed from your IP address and browser user agent combined with a private secret value (a salt). Only that hash is stored. Your IP address and user agent are not stored in readable form, and the hash cannot be turned back into either of them. A given visitor is counted at most once per article every 24 hours. Automated crawlers and link-preview bots are not counted.

Helpful button

The “Helpful” button on articles lets you mark a guide as useful. To remember your choice and prevent duplicate votes, the site creates a random identifier that is not derived from your name, IP address, or device, and stores it in two places in your browser:

• a cookie named tuxwraith_voter_id, kept for one year, used only for the Helpful button; and
• a browser localStorage entry named tuxwraith:voter-id, a backup copy of the same identifier.

Your vote is stored together with this random identifier and the article. To limit abuse, requests to the Helpful feature are rate-limited using a short-lived, salted hash of your IP address that is kept only in server memory for about a minute.

Theme preference

If you switch between light and dark mode, your choice is saved in your browser's localStorage under the key theme. It never leaves your device.

Server logs

Like most websites, the infrastructure that serves this site may keep standard technical logs (for example IP address, requested page, and timestamp) for security and reliability. We do not use these logs for advertising or profiling.

Advertising and third-party tracking

This site may use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its third-party advertising vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other websites. These cookies may be used to show personalized ads based on your interests, depending on your settings and applicable consent requirements.