Unique visitors without cookies

Anchorpost sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. To count unique visitors, each visit is turned into a hash of the visitor’s network address and browser plus a secret that changes every day. The hash is kept, the inputs are not, and yesterday’s hash cannot be linked to today’s.

The result is an accurate daily count of distinct visitors, a slightly conservative count over longer periods, and nothing that identifies a person. This is why there is nothing to declare in a cookie banner.