What Are Asciify's Privacy Practices?

Asciify states that it requires no accounts, shows no ads, sets no tracking cookies, and does no cross-site tracking. The only analytics it keeps are described as anonymous, aggregated counts of pages and searches that are never tied to an individual. It also says it stores no IP addresses and builds no user profiles. Cloudflare handles hosting and request delivery/security for the site.

What Asciify Says It Does Not Do

Based on the site's own privacy section, the following are explicitly ruled out:

  • No accounts — there is nothing to sign up for or log into.
  • No ads — no advertising is served on the site.
  • No tracking cookies — cookies are not used to follow you.
  • No cross-site tracking — your activity on asciify.dev is not linked to other sites.
  • No stored IP addresses — the site says it does not keep IP addresses.
  • No user profiles — no behavioral profile is built around you.

What Analytics It Does Keep

Asciify describes its analytics as "faceless":

  • Anonymous — not connected to an identifiable person.
  • Aggregated — counts of pages and searches, not individual records.
  • Never tied to you — the data is not associated with a specific visitor.

In practice, this means the site can know that a page or a search term was used a certain number of times, without knowing who used it.

Third-Party Infrastructure

Cloudflare hosts the site and handles requests for delivery and security. That means requests pass through Cloudflare's infrastructure as part of normal site operation. Asciify's privacy statement presents this as the hosting and security layer, separate from the analytics it describes.

Practical Takeaway

If your concern is whether using Asciify creates a persistent, personal profile or follows you across the web, the site's stated practices say no: no accounts, no ads, no tracking cookies, no cross-site tracking, no stored IPs, and no profiles. The trade-off it describes is anonymous, aggregated usage counts plus standard Cloudflare hosting.

For the full details, the site links to its full privacy policy, an extension privacy page, and a contact address ([email protected]) in its privacy & legal section.

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