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Yarloong
Last updated: October 11, 2026
Yarloong is a news site. You can read it without creating an account. The site shows ads from Google AdSense. This page explains what information the site collects, why, and who else receives it.
We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. Google Analytics records the pages you open, the approximate location it derives from your network address, and the type of device and browser you use. It stores cookies in your browser to recognize repeat visits. It does not run on our admin pages.
You can block these cookies in your browser settings or install Google's Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Google's use of this data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
We also count unique browsers that visit the public site for a private owner dashboard. A first-party cookie named __Host-yarloong-visitor remembers a random browser ID for up to one year. Cloudflare stores a hashed version of that ID for the total count. Recent daily records cover up to 32 days; older daily records are removed on the next counted visit. We do not store page URLs, names, email addresses, or raw network addresses in these visitor records. A daily-changing hash of the network address limits inflated counts. This counter respects Do Not Track, Global Privacy Control, and the yarloong-no-analytics opt-out cookie. Admin and development pages are excluded.
The homepage estimates your city from location information supplied by Vercel for your network address. Device location is optional and is requested only when you select Use my location and allow your browser to share it. Device coordinates are rounded to two decimal places before being sent to our weather endpoint. They stay in page memory and are not saved as a location preference or added to our editorial or visitor databases.
Our server requests forecast data from MET Norway using a rounded forecast point, without forwarding your network address or browser cookies. Forecasts for those points are temporarily cached by Vercel and may be reused for other readers. This is a forecast cache, not a history of readers' movements. Nearby place names are resolved on our server from a public GeoNames dataset; we do not send device coordinates to a separate geocoding service. Vercel processes requests to operate the site; MET Norway may log the forecast points requested by our server. See MET Norway's API terms.
The "Trending" list on our homepage ranks stories by how many different readers clicked them in the past seven days. Each reader counts once per story during that period, and the ranking refreshes hourly when the homepage is visited. When you click a story, your browser stores a random ID in a cookie named yarloong-vid for seven days. We record that ID, the story, and the date.
To stop one person from inflating a story's rank, we also store a scrambled version of your network address. The scrambling cannot be reversed to reveal the address, and we never store the address itself. These records do not include your name or email address.
If you switch between light and dark mode, your browser remembers the choice. If you play the game on our maintenance page, your browser saves your high score and sound setting. This information stays in your browser. It is not sent to us.
Our contact and story/source forms are hosted by Tally. Messages and suggestions you submit are stored in Tally and reviewed by Yarloong. Contact-form email addresses are used to respond to messages. Email is optional on story/source suggestions and is used only if we need to follow up. Tally processes and stores submissions on our behalf; see Tally's Privacy Notice.
Our forms do not ask for phone numbers, home addresses, or file attachments. Please do not include confidential information in a submission.
Yarloong shows ads provided by Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to Yarloong and to other websites. Google's advertising cookies let Google and its partners show you ads based on those visits.
You can turn off personalized ads from Google in My Ad Center, and opt out of some other vendors' use of cookies for personalized ads at aboutads.info. Google explains its use of this data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Ads do not appear on our admin pages. We do not give advertisers your name, your email address, or anything you send through our forms.
Some parts of our pages come from other companies' servers. When your browser loads them, those companies receive your network address and basic browser information.
When you open a story, you leave Yarloong and go to the publisher's website. That publisher's own privacy policy applies there.
Yarloong is hosted by Vercel. Our editorial database, click records, and publisher image files are stored with Cloudflare. Vercel and Cloudflare process technical information, such as network addresses and pages requested, to operate and protect their services.
We do not sell or rent readers' names or email addresses, or share form submissions with advertisers.
You can clear or block cookies at any time in your browser settings. Yarloong works without them. You can turn off personalized ads from Google in My Ad Center. To request access to or deletion of information you submitted, contact us through our contact form.
If we change how Yarloong collects or uses information, we will update this page and the date at the top.