Today, I made some changes to our web server code and our privacy policy. The primary effect of these changes are that we no longer record the IP addresses of visitors to elehack.net. This change was prompted by our discovery of the search engine Duck Duck Go and particularly its privacy policy.

As you browse the web, a good deal of information is sent to web sites you view. I want to take this opportunity to provide a run-down of what some of this information is and how it can be used.

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