Privacy & AI

No ads, no cookies*, no Google Analytics, no LinkedIn Insights, no Meta Pixel, no Pinterest Tag, no Substack spam, no tracking of any kind.

No need, turns out, for a privacy policy. I'm solely responsible for all content on gwagner.com.

If you happen to navigate to a page with an audio or video clip, you may be asked to accept a third-party cookie (e.g. from NPR or YouTube), but that's it.

If you sign up for my mailing list, I will email you occasional updates sent directly from gwagner@columbia.edu.

These emails will always be free. Nobody else has access to the list. Nobody else is writing these updates. That also means no AI.

No AI

Nothing written on this site has been generated by AI.

If I put my name on it, I wrote it.

That includes all my social media posts, whether Bluesky, Mastodon, or LinkedIn.

I do work with plenty of co-authors. They all know about my no-AI policy.

And yes, AI has some uses for otherwise inconsequential tasks. Writing isn't one of them.

*No cookies and dark mode

The no-cookies policy, turns out, does come with some challenges. Take the dark-mode toggle on the top right of each page. It works just as advertised without cookies, with one exception: If you have set a default on your browser, and you toggle away from it, you now see a small flash every time you navigate to a new page.

The smoothest fix: a cookie. The browser reads those on the server-side before loading the page.

There's apparently no way to avoid that flash without a cookie.

Tradeoffs.

If you know of a fix, please email web@gwagner.com.