Privacy
This site has no accounts, no forms and no ads, and it sets no cookies of its own. This page lists everything your browser contacts while you read it, when it does so, and what each of those services can see.
The short version
- Every page loads its typefaces from Google Fonts and reports the visit to Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies.
- The homepage also streams video from Wikimedia Commons and loads one code library from unpkg.com.
- Witness also streams video from Wikimedia Commons, shows three preview pictures from Vimeo, and loads Vimeo’s player only if you press play on one of those three.
- If you choose a country for the figures, the choice stays in your browser.
Hosting and visit counts
The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel’s servers receive every request your browser makes to this site, including your IP address, because they need it to send the page back.
We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics. A small script on each page sends the address of the page you opened and, when you arrive, the page that linked you here. It sends them to discussvegan.com itself, where Vercel receives them and adds your browser, operating system and type of device from the request. Vercel’s documentation says Web Analytics uses no cookies and tells visitors apart with a hash made from the incoming request. That hash resets every day, so nobody can be followed from one day to the next or from this site to another.
Vercel also works out roughly where each visit comes from. It does this on its own servers, from the request itself, and your browser sends no location. Its documentation gives country, region and city as an example of what may be recorded, and the reports we see show visits by country. They are counts, with nothing in them that identifies a person.
Vercel Web Analytics: privacy and compliance Vercel: how visitors are counted Vercel’s privacy notice
Fonts
The two typefaces, Source Serif 4 and Inter, come from Google Fonts. On every page your browser fetches them from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com, so Google’s servers receive your IP address, your browser’s details and the name of this site, as any server would.
Video and pictures
The moving backgrounds on the homepage are video files from Wikimedia Commons. Your browser fetches the first one or two from upload.wikimedia.org as the page opens and the rest as you scroll towards them. If your device asks for reduced motion or data saving, you get still pictures from this site instead.
As you near the kill counter on the homepage, the falling ash behind it fetches a code library, three.js, from unpkg.com. Reduced motion and data saving switch this off too.
On Witness, the background video also comes from Wikimedia Commons. Most of the records there are Wikimedia Commons files as well, and nothing is fetched for them until you press play. Three are hosted on Vimeo. Their preview pictures load from Vimeo’s image server, i.vimeocdn.com, as you scroll near them, and Vimeo’s player loads only when you press play. We start it in Vimeo’s do-not-track mode, which Vimeo says stops the player collecting session data and analytics, although some essential cookies are still set.
Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy Vimeo: player settings, including do-not-track
Links and sharing
Every other link on the site, to sources, films and campaign groups, contacts nothing until you follow it. There are no YouTube embeds and no social media widgets, and the share buttons on the homepage open X, Facebook or WhatsApp only when you press one.
Your country choice
Some passages have versions for Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US. Everyone sees the version for readers everywhere until they choose a country, and nothing on the page tries to work out where you are.
If you choose one, your browser keeps the choice in its local storage, under the name dv-country, so the next page can show the same version. It stays on your device. It is never sent to us, to Vercel or to anyone else, it never appears in a web address, and it has no part in the visit counts. Going back to the international or worldwide figures deletes it, and so does clearing this site’s data in your browser.
Last checked against the site’s code and each provider’s own documentation on .