# Privacy

models.rip has no accounts, no sign-in and no user-supplied content. There is nothing to log into and nothing to delete. What follows is everything the site collects, which is analytics and one live count.

## Analytics

The site uses [PostHog](https://posthog.com/) for product analytics: page views, a handful of named events about how the walk through the cemetery is used — entering the gate, moving between plots, opening an epitaph, sharing a grave, changing the weather — and uncaught JavaScript errors. PostHog stores a random identifier in your browser so that repeat visits are counted as one visitor. That identifier is not a name and is not linked to one, because the site never learns one.

Analytics requests go to `sexton.models.rip`, which is PostHog’s reverse proxy on this domain rather than a separate company. The site also uses [Vercel Analytics](https://vercel.com/docs/analytics), which reports aggregate page traffic and does not use cookies.

## Session replay

PostHog session replay is on, and it records the 3D canvas as well as the page around it — without that, a replay of this site is a recording of a blank rectangle. What the canvas shows is the names of dead models from a public dataset. There are no forms, no fields and nothing typed anywhere on this site, so there is nothing for a replay to capture that you did not already see.

## The live count

The line telling you how many other people are in the cemetery is a heartbeat: an open tab posts a random identifier every twenty seconds, and the count is however many identifiers were seen in the last forty-five. The identifier is generated fresh in the tab, is not stored in your browser between visits, and expires from the store forty-five seconds after your last beat. Your IP address is used to rate-limit that endpoint and is held only for that, in a ten-second window.

## What is never collected

- No names, email addresses or accounts — the site has no way to ask for one.
- No advertising, no ad networks, no third-party trackers beyond the two analytics tools named above.
- No selling or sharing of anything with anybody.
- No cross-site profiles. Nothing here follows you off this domain.

## Opting out

Any content or tracker blocker stops the analytics; the site is built to work with them blocked and loses nothing but the visitor count. Analytics also never start at all if the page is loaded without the analytics key configured, which is the case on every local copy of this site.

## Hosting and questions

The site is hosted on [Vercel](https://vercel.com/), whose edge network necessarily sees the requests it serves. The live count is stored on [Upstash](https://upstash.com/) Redis. For anything not answered here, write to [groundskeeper@models.rip](mailto:groundskeeper@models.rip) and it will be answered by a person.

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[models.rip](https://models.rip/) — a cemetery for deprecated AI models.