Privacy
Short version: you can use antidoom without telling us anything, and an account only stores what it needs to.
No tracking
Reading antidoom needs no account. There is no advertising and there are no tracking cookies. Nothing you read, save or skip changes what the feed shows: there is no algorithm.
Anonymous visit counts
We count visits anonymously with Vercel Web Analytics: no cookies, no personal data, nothing that follows you across sites. For each page view it records the page, the site you came from, your rough location (country and city), and your browser and device type. Visits are told apart only by a scrambled code made from the request, which Vercel discards after 24 hours, so no one can be followed from one day to the next. Your IP address is not stored.
We also count how many cards each visit shows, how long the page is on screen, broadly where the visit came from (for example Reddit, a search engine or a direct link) and your rough location (country and city, as our host Vercel estimates it from your connection), as anonymous daily totals only (for example, "Tuesday: 120 visits, 30 from Reddit, 12 from Mumbai, 2,400 cards"). Nothing is kept per visit: no ids, no IP address, not the page you came from, and nothing about which cards you saw.
Optional accounts
If you sign in with Google, Google shares three things with us: your name, your email address and your profile picture (the basic "openid", "email" and "profile" permissions, nothing else). We use the email address to identify your account, and the name and picture only to show who's signed in. We also store the cards you save, the list of cards you've seen and your Diary (the cards you've read), so they sync across your devices. Accounts are for people aged 18 or over. You can delete your account at any time from the Account page; that removes your name, email, picture, saves, seen history and Diary from our database. We never sell or share this data, and we never email you.
What stays on your device
To avoid showing you the same card twice, your browser keeps a list of the cards you've already seen, and your saved cards, plus your Diary (the cards you've read, for 120 days). Without an account these stay only on your device (in your browser's local storage) and are never sent to us. Clearing your browser data deletes them.
Reporting a card
If you flag a card as off, we store the card, the reason you picked and the time, plus a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address used only to stop floods of reports. We can't turn it back into your address, and reports are deleted after 90 days.
Videos and YouTube
antidoom uses YouTube API Services to find videos and show their titles and lengths. Videos play through YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com). When you play a video, YouTube (Google) may set cookies or similar storage on your device and collect data under the Google Privacy Policy. We don't receive or store any of that data.
Cookies
antidoom itself sets no tracking cookies. If you pick an edition, one small cookie remembers it. Without a choice, the edition comes from the country our host (Vercel) sees for your connection; we don't store it. If you sign in, your browser keeps a sign-in token so you stay signed in. YouTube's player may set its own cookies when you play a video (see above).
Links and images
Cards link to other websites, which have their own privacy policies. Some images load directly from the publisher's servers, which may see your IP address, like any website you visit.
Hosting
The site runs on Vercel and Supabase. Google handles sign-in when you choose it. Like any web host, they may keep short-lived technical logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service.
Contact
Questions: hello@antidoom.net.