Privacy.
What this site collects. Nothing.

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Reviewed against primary sources cited at the bottom of this page.

Fiat Is Fake is a static content site. There is no sign-up, no account, no newsletter, no tracking script, no cookie that identifies you. This page lists every data flow the site can produce, so a reader can verify it independently.

What this site collects

Nothing identifying. The site is a set of static HTML pages served over HTTPS by Vercel. There is no login form, no newsletter signup, no contact form, no comment system.

Standard server logs (IP address, request path, timestamp, user-agent) are written by the hosting layer for operational reasons. These are not read, aggregated, or shared by the site author. Vercel retains them per its own policy.

What this site stores

No cookies are set by the site. No third-party tracking pixel fires. No fingerprinting, no session ID, no anonymous analytics beacon.

Two small values are written to localStorage on the device. Both are inspectable in any browser's dev tools and both stay on the device:

  • theme: "light" or "dark". Lets the site render in the mode you last chose so the page does not flash the wrong color.
  • btc_price_cache: the latest Bitcoin price pulled from CoinGecko, plus a timestamp. Kept for 5 minutes to avoid refetching on every page load.

Both are written client-side, by the site's own JavaScript, and never leave your browser. Clear them in dev tools or via Clear Site Data.

Third-party requests

This site makes only two categories of third-party network requests:

PLAUSIBLE ANALYTICS
Privacy-respecting, cookie-free analytics from plausible.io. No personal data collected. Their privacy policy.
COINGECKO API
Live BTC price, fetched once per 5-minute window. Read-only. No data sent except the request itself.

Everything else is self-hosted: fonts (Inter + Space Mono woff2), JavaScript libraries (Chart.js, Fuse.js, qrcode-generator, D3), stylesheets, and all data files. Your browser makes zero requests to Google, Cloudflare, or any CDN.

If zero third-party requests are required, block Plausible and CoinGecko, the content renders identically, minus live BTC price.

What stays on your device

Every tool on the site runs entirely client-side. Numbers you type into the tax estimator, the FIRE calculator, the DCA tool, or any of the 50 other calculators are processed in your browser and never sent to any server. Nothing you enter is stored, logged, or seen by the site author.

Verify this in dev tools: open the Network panel, type into any tool, and observe that no POST or GET requests fire in response.

Your rights

Because the site collects no personal data, there is nothing to request, export, correct, or delete. GDPR, CCPA, and similar frameworks apply primarily to controllers of personal data; a static publisher that collects none has nothing to surrender on request.

If you arrived at this page expecting a long list of rights backed by boilerplate clauses, the absence is the point. You cannot exercise a right over data that was never collected.

Questions or concerns

Email shrimpstacked@fiatisfake.org. Replies are written and plain-text. The site owner does not store or index messages beyond what the email provider retains.

Last updated 2026-04-24.

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