If this site goes away tomorrow

Last revised 14 September 2026.

The usual way to write this is to describe what is collected. I find the shape clearer the other way round: here is what would happen to each thing if I stopped paying the bill tomorrow.

The server lines would stop being written, then age out

A line per file handed over — moment, file, status, size, asking address, browser label — is the only record this address makes. The machine rotates them off on its own schedule and there is no archive anywhere else, so the last of them would be gone within days of the last visitor, without anybody doing anything.

Your browser settings would stay with you

Theme, and a mark that the strip at the bottom was read. Those live in your browser, never left it, and are not mine to delete or to keep. Clearing site data removes them; so does not coming back.

The age answer is already gone

It was never anywhere. Held for the length of the click and then not written, which is why the question comes back on every visit. There is nothing about it that could outlive the site.

Nothing would need to be deleted anywhere else

No accounts to close, because none exist. No analytics to wind down, because none was ever added. No advertising network holding a profile built from this address, no font service that saw your request, no third company with a copy. The reason this letter is short is that the list is short.

The room would carry on without me

The conversation was never here. It belongs to another company, at their address, under a policy considerably longer than this one, and what they hold about a visit is described there and is unaffected by anything that happens to this page.