Opt out of being counted

Simplytics counts visits on websites that use it. It sets no cookies, stores no personal data, and cannot recognise you across days or across sites. Even so, you may simply not want to be counted — and you are entitled to say so without asking anyone, paying anything, or trusting us to honour a form.

Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser and Simplytics sends nothing at all. Not a reduced record, not an anonymous one: the script stops before it makes any request, so no data about your visit ever reaches us to be discarded.

How to turn it on

• Brave and DuckDuckGo send it already, for everyone, with nothing to switch on.
• Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → tick Tell websites not to sell or share my data.
• Chrome, Edge and Safari do not offer it natively. A Global Privacy Control extension adds it, and works the same way.

The signal is a published web standard, not something we invented, and it works on every site that honours it — not only ones using Simplytics.

Two things we would rather tell you than have you discover

• A site owner can switch this off for their own site. The tracking snippet accepts data-honor-gpc="false", which makes Simplytics count you regardless. We would rather it did not exist, but a hard rule with no override is one that gets solved by moving to an analytics tool that never asked — and every alternative we measured on 2026-09-08 ignores this signal entirely. You can check any site for yourself: view source and look at the simplytics.dev/track.js tag.
• We do not honour the older “Do Not Track” header. Safari removed it, Chrome leaves it off by default, and no regulator stands behind it. Honouring it would cost site owners a great deal more accuracy for a signal that carries far less meaning about what the person actually wanted. Global Privacy Control is the one with legal weight, and it is the one we act on.

What we did not do

There is no form on this page and no button to click, because either would need something to key your objection to — an account, an identifier, or a cookie. Simplytics collects none of those, which is the entire point of it, so the honest options were a browser signal or nothing. The privacy policy sets out what is collected when you are counted.