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Comments under a story are built into the page from the desk's own records. Nothing is loaded from a comment host when you read one. To post a comment, the form on the story page sends your name, the comment text, how long the form was open before you sent it, and a check from Cloudflare Turnstile that you are not a bot, to comments.aitamer.news. No email address is asked. A comment waits for the desk to read and approve it before anyone else sees it.
The comments Worker is the desk's own program, not a vendor's. Nothing about a comment goes through a third-party comment host or an advertising tracker. This is what the desk keeps when you send a comment, and for how long. The desk deletes old data in a clean-up that runs once a night, so anything kept "for 30 days" is deleted at the first clean-up after those 30 days: at most 31 days after it was stored. Deleted data can remain in the database's restorable backups for up to 30 days more, until those backups expire.
- Your IP address, only as a salted, shortened hash. The address itself is never stored. The hash is kept for 30 days and deleted within a day after that. It is used to limit how many comments one visitor can send, to spot the same comment sent twice, to judge how far to trust a new comment, and to enforce a ban. When the desk bans a visitor, the hash and a short note of the reason are kept for 30 days from the ban and deleted within a day after that. While you send, Cloudflare's rate limit and its Turnstile check see the address itself; that handling is Cloudflare's.
- A trust score for the comment, worked out from its content and from that hash's recent history, and the number of links in it. These stay with the comment's record.
- How long the form was open before you sent it. This is kept for 30 days and deleted within a day after that.
- Your name and comment text, while the desk reviews the comment. If the desk rejects it, the name and text are kept for 30 days after the review and erased within a day after that.
- If the desk removes a comment, its name and text are erased from the desk's database at once. A bare record that a comment existed stays: its id, story, times, trust score and link count. The database keeps restorable backups for up to 30 days, so erased text can remain in those backups until they expire.
A published comment is public. It appears on the story's page, on the Campfire page with the other newest comments, and in the story page's structured data (the machine-readable summary search engines read). The site's source is public on GitHub, and a published comment is part of its history there. Removing a comment takes it off the site and erases its name and text from the desk's database, but it cannot erase it from that public history.
To ask for a comment's removal, use the contact form, and quote the comment's id, shown next to its time.
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On aitamer.news the site also loads Google Analytics. The tag sends Google the page address and stores a cookie so a later visit from the same browser can be counted together. The site does not sell this information.
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Some stories include a YouTube video. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play. Then the player loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube receives the ordinary details of that request under its own policy.
The contact form asks for a name, an email address, and a note. Sending it goes to contact.aitamer.news, a small Cloudflare program that checks the note and asks Cloudflare Email to deliver it to the desk, with your address as the reply-to. Nothing is stored in a database. To stop floods, Cloudflare counts how many notes come from your IP address in the last minute; the count is not kept. A hidden field is there for spam; filling it drops the note. The form also runs Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks your browser for signs of a bot before the note is accepted.
The desk does not sell personal information, because the site does not collect an account or a subscriber list. The terms of use cover how the stories may be read and quoted.