Spent a very hot afternoon in the city of two rivers working on my website’s privacy policy: where it is hosted, which CMS it uses, if the plugins should be explained in terms of user privacy.

I even went so far to ask ChatGPT (which I used to figure this thing out more easily: to be honest, privacy policy in Germany is not just opaque, there are whole industries thriving in this well‑kept opacity) about mentioning the privacy policies of the individual social media providers I am linking to, even if I don’t host their content (mine, actually, but you know what I mean) on my website.

Doing all of this makes me realize a thing even more: this is serious. I am clearly not a “Liebhaber”, that is, an amateur in this game. I am building my own enterprise here.

If I would’ve continued to treat the privacy policy as something to be solved later, most likely by overpaying someone for what is a glorified text generator, I would not feel this accomplishment right now.

Thank you, Germany. You really tried to filter me there 😉

And you know what? Somehwere while putting this together, it felt like putting together a manual of sorts for my website. And that felt really nice.

Like now nice it’ll feel to put this laptop away from me, because that damn thing is not exactly cooling me down.

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas