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Privacy.

chanalyse.org is a research site with no logins and no advertising. This page explains, in plain language, exactly what the site does and does not collect.

The short version: we count article views as anonymous aggregate totals, and the optional chat assistant sends what you type to an AI provider to generate its replies. We set no cookies, keep no accounts, run no advertising trackers, and store nothing that identifies you personally.

What we collect

Article view analytics (aggregate only). When an article page is opened, it sends the article's path, the domain of the site that linked here (the referrer — e.g. "news.ycombinator.com" or "direct"), and the country Cloudflare's edge reports for the request. We store these as plain counters: total views per article, views per day site-wide, and aggregate views by referrer domain and by country — never linked to individuals. A capped "recent activity" list also keeps the last ~200 view events (article, referrer domain, country, timestamp — no IP, no identifiers).
Rate limiting. To keep the counters and the chat from being flooded, the server briefly keeps a short-lived hash derived from your IP address and browser user-agent, in a ten-minute rolling window. The hash exists purely to limit abuse; raw IP addresses are never stored by our code.
Standard edge logs. chanalyse.org is hosted on Cloudflare (CDN), which processes standard request logs at the edge under its own policies; we do not use them for analytics or profiling. No other third parties are involved, no advertising or tracking pixels run on this site, and chanalyse.org sets no cookies — the only browser storage used is described below.

The chat assistant

The widget in the bottom-right corner is an AI helper. Messages you type are (a) forwarded to our LLM provider (Z.AI / GLM) to generate its reply, and (b) stored as a transcript in Cloudflare's key-value store for up to 90 days for abuse monitoring and service improvement. Transcripts are keyed by a random session id that your own browser generates and keeps in localStorage — no account, name or email is attached. Chat history within a session lives in sessionStorage and disappears when the browser closes.

What we analyse — content, not people

The data chanalyse processes is public forum content: threads and posts from 4chan's /pol/, /biz/ and /g/ boards, obtained through the public 4chan API and archives. Our research monitors public discourse as a whole. It is not directed at identifying, tracking or profiling individual site visitors — or at identifying the posters behind the public threads we study.

Retention and your choices

Aggregate view counters are kept indefinitely as anonymous long-term metrics. Chat transcripts are kept up to 90 days; rate-limit hashes expire within ten minutes. Nothing personally identifying is stored, so there is nothing to export or delete per visitor — clearing this site's data in your browser removes the random session id and, with it, the link to any transcript. If you believe published content raises a concern, contact us and we will review it.

Contact

chanalyse.org is operated by qalarc (Alexei Brown), Australia, as part of the qalarc research projects. Privacy questions, data concerns and takedown review requests: team@qalarc.com.

Last updated 2026-09-02 · Operator: qalarc (Alexei Brown), Australia · team@qalarc.com · chanalyse.org