Privacy, plainly

pit.world is built so that there is nothing to hand over. Not a policy promise: the system has nowhere to put it.

What we never keep

Your searches. The web server does not write access logs for pit.world, and the application logs no queries.
Your IP address. It is not stored anywhere. Rate limiting uses a keyed hash of it, held in memory, under a random key that is thrown away every hour, so the counters cannot be turned back into addresses or linked across hours.
Cookies. pit.world sets none. Your settings, when there are any, stay in your browser.
Trackers, analytics, ads, third-party scripts or fonts. None. Every byte comes from pit.world.

What happens to a search

Your browser sends the words to pit.world over HTTPS.
pit.world asks the Google index (through Serper) and the Bing index (through DataForSEO) for results and merges them. The providers receive the words from our server: not your IP, browser, cookies or referrer.
To avoid paying twice for a popular search, identical searches are answered from memory for up to ten minutes. That cache holds the words and the results, nothing about who asked, never touches disk, and empties on restart.
Result links go straight to the site, with no redirect through us and no-referrer, so the site does not learn what you searched for.

Moshpit names

When a search looks like a name (chovy.hacker), pit.world also asks the public Moshpit registry whether it exists. That lookup is the name only, from our server.

Bangs

!gh hqtui sends you to GitHub's own search. From that moment you are on their site, under their privacy policy; pit.world only redirects you there without a referrer.

The newsletter is the one thing pit.world keeps, and only after you ask twice. When you sign up, pit.world stores your address beside a fingerprint of a one-time link and emails you that link. Nothing else about you: no IP address, no browser, no referrer. Click it and your address joins the list; don't, and both are deleted within 48 hours. Issues are sent by our newsletter tool through our email provider, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe that takes you off for good.

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