What analytics sees, and how to turn it off

Why we measure anything

ViewOrSkip is making a specific bet: that a VIEW / MAYBE / SKIP verdict, computed from a deck’s real altitude against the day’s real cloud, is worth more to someone deciding whether to spend money on a ticket than a weather app is. We have no way of knowing whether that bet is right without seeing how the site actually gets used.

Concretely: whether people trust a verdict enough to read the reasons under it or bounce immediately; whether anyone reads the methodology page; whether the alternatives block on a SKIP day actually helps someone find a deck worth visiting, which is the single thing this site does that no operator will ever do. None of that is guessable from the outside. A page that looks fine can be quietly useless, and aggregate numbers are the only way we would find out.

What Google Analytics actually sees

If you accept, Google Analytics 4 (property G-NW7QFY595J) records the ordinary things: which pages were viewed and in what order, roughly where in the world the request came from, which site or search sent you, and what kind of device and browser you used. It sets a cookie so that two page views in one visit are counted as one visit rather than two strangers.

It does not receive your name, your email, or anything you typed, because the site never asks you for any of those — there is no account, no newsletter and no form anywhere on ViewOrSkip. Google is a processor here and its own terms apply to what it does with the data; we do not sell it, share it, or join it to anything else.

If you decline, gtag.js still loads but is told not to store anything: no analytics cookie, no identifier. Google receives an anonymous, cookieless ping it may use for aggregate modelling, and nothing that can follow you between visits or between sites.

The ticket-click record is separate, and unaffected

When you click through to a ticket partner, we record one row: the time, which deck, which network, where on the page the link was, the verdict at that moment, and the date it was for. That row is anonymous by construction — no IP address, no cookie, no identifier — so two people clicking the same link produce two identical rows and there is nothing to link them to a person.

That record is how we know whether the site is worth running at all, and it is unaffected by the choice on this page, because there is nothing personal in it to consent to. The privacy policy describes it in full.