@abucci nobody seems to have mentioned yet that the website has a fucking privacy policy lmao https://calibre-ebook.com/privacy

This website does not log IP addresses or any other personally identifying information.

this is just blatantly contradicted later. they even use the same term "website":

Additionally, this website uses Google Analytics to analyse website traffic

it might make sense if the first invocation of "website" was "server". but this next part is just confusing:

which is needed for provision of ads, above

so i'm like ok let's check out this freestar advertiser whatever https://freestar.com/solutions/header-bidding/

Industry experts and machine learning to maximize your revenue

guess we know where they got the idea from now lmao

this page is all about SEO too https://freestar.com/audience-development/

back to the privacy policy—i really didn't like this line:

It does collect aggregate usage details that are used to breakdown calibre usage by country and platform only.

so it does browser fingerprinting that's cool

for a finishing touch there's the fucking copyright symbol embedded on every single page

seems very likely the privacy policy was written by hand too which is just like what? you pay lawyers so you avoid getting fucked over. small wonder that someone introduces slop into a library doesn't respect human expertise and thinks they can do all that by hand

cc @ireneista one of the more interesting privacy policies i've seen recently