Analytics and Consent: Privacy Policy

Persuasion Dissected has no accounts, comments, forms, newsletter or advertising. Two analytics tools measure visits, and they work differently, so each gets its own section below. This page was last updated on 10 November 2026.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 counts visits. When it runs, it sets cookies to tell visits apart and sends Google data such as the pages viewed, the referring page, approximate location, and browser and device type. Advertising signals are declared denied in its settings. Google explains its handling of this data in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Visitors who are asked first. Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland see a notice with a choice to accept or reject. So do visitors from the French overseas departments, Saint Martin, Åland, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, and anyone whose location cannot be determined. The location comes from the country Cloudflare reports for the connection. Until you accept, Google Analytics does not load at all: no signal goes out and no cookie is set. If you reject, it never loads.

Everyone else. Google Analytics loads without a notice, shortly after the page has finished loading, at your first interaction with the page, or at most about 4 seconds after arrival, whichever comes first. The same timing applies on return visits after you have accepted. Pressing accept loads it right away.

Changing your mind. A link in the footer of every page reopens the choice, wherever you are visiting from. Rejecting stops Google Analytics from loading from then on; if it was already running, the page reloads without it. Cookies already set are not removed by that choice, so clear them in your browser settings if you want them gone.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

This site is served through Cloudflare, which also adds its Web Analytics script to every page for every visitor. It reports page views and loading times back to this site’s own address. It uses no cookies and no browser storage, and Cloudflare says it does not fingerprint visitors. The consent notice above does not control it. A content blocker can stop it by blocking static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Because pages pass through Cloudflare, connection data such as IP addresses reaches its network in the course of delivering the site and protecting it. Requests from China and Russia are blocked at that level.

What is stored in your browser

• measure-0ee0 holds your Google Analytics choice as granted or denied. It stays until you change the choice or clear your browser’s data.
• pd-lamp holds your choice from the light and dark switch as light or dark. It is written only when you press the switch, and it stays until you clear your browser’s data.

Search, fonts and email

The search box filters the list of articles inside your browser, and nothing typed there is sent anywhere. Fonts are served from this site, and no third-party embeds load.

An email to contact@persuasiondissected.com is used only to deal with that message. Questions about this page can go to the same address.

If advertising is ever added, this page will name the provider and the available choices first.