The skill: nothing leaves your machine
Zero Slop is a writing tool that runs on your own computer. The scoring, the fact checks, and the private learning all happen locally, with zero runtime dependencies. No service I operate receives your drafts, and none of what follows on this page applies to them. That guarantee is not affected by anything below, and I have no plans to change it.
What changed, and when
On August 25, 2026 this site added advertising measurement, so that I can tell which ads actually bring people here rather than guessing. It loads only where you have allowed it, and it stays off entirely until then. That is a real change from the previous version of this page, which said there was no advertising. Rather than quietly editing that sentence away, here is exactly what it means.
The short version
The host, Cloudflare, runs cookieless Web Analytics on this site, and a small first-party counter records page views and labelled button clicks with no person attached to them. Separately, a Reddit advertising cookie measures whether their ads work. In the EU, the UK, and Switzerland that cookie loads only if you accept it. Every other visitor can turn it off, and if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track it never loads at all.
Advertising measurement
The Reddit Pixel tells Reddit that someone who saw one of their ads reached this site, and which of a handful of actions they took: viewing an example, copying the install command, following a link to the repository, or subscribing. Reddit receives that event together with the technical details any web request carries, including your IP address and browser, and may use it to measure ads and build advertising audiences. Their own privacy policy governs what they do with it.
I never send your email address, hashed or otherwise. Reddit’s pixel supports that and I have deliberately not enabled it. Nothing you type into a draft, a feedback message, or the newsletter form is passed to any advertiser.
What is recorded when you read a page
Each page view and each click on a labelled button writes one row to a counter. That row holds the page path, which button was used, and a small amount of context: whether you arrived from a search engine, a social network, a link, or typed the address directly; any campaign tags in the link you followed; whether the screen was phone-sized or larger; the release of the site you saw; and coarse location, meaning your country, city, region, time zone, and the network your connection belongs to.
Those rows are not joined to each other. There is no session and no visitor record, so the counter cannot tell that two page views came from the same person, and neither can I. The location is derived from your IP address by the content network in front of the site and arrives already reduced to a place name. The address itself is never written down. I deliberately do not collect postal code or coordinates, because that is precision I would never act on.
What your browser stores
One thing, and only if you dismiss or complete the newsletter signup bar: a single flag in session storage so the bar does not reappear while you keep reading. It disappears when you close the tab, it contains no identifier, and it never leaves your device.
If you ask for something
The newsletter form sends your email address to Resend, which stores the list and delivers the mail. Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from the list. The feedback form sends your message, and your email address only if you choose to type one, to a private inbox. Neither is used for anything but replying to you, and neither is sold or shared.
Signals this site obeys
If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, both the measurement script and the advertising pixel stop before recording anything at all. Nothing is counted, not even a page view. Most privacy extensions and several browsers send one of these by default, so for a meaningful share of readers this site measures nothing whatsoever.
Do not sell or share my personal information
Sharing advertising events with Reddit counts as “sharing” under California law, so you can switch it off and it stays off on this browser:
Sending Global Privacy Control does the same thing automatically, and takes precedence over any choice made here.
How long any of it is kept
The counters roll off automatically after 90 days. Newsletter subscribers are kept until they unsubscribe. Feedback messages are kept while the conversation is useful and deleted afterwards.
Your rights, and how to use them
If you are in the EU, the UK, California, or anywhere with similar law, you have the right to see what is held about you, correct it, delete it, and object to its use. For the page counters there is nothing to retrieve, because no row can be traced to a person. For the newsletter, the feedback inbox, and anything Reddit holds from the advertising pixel there is, and I will action any request. Ask through the feedback form or reply to any newsletter issue.
Questions
The measurement code is public and readable in a few minutes: the site source shows exactly which fields are written and which are dropped. If something here does not match what you observe, tell me and I will fix the page or the code.