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Analytics is optional. You can read the site and use its tools without allowing it.
Last updated: 25 September 2026.
Optional audience measurement
The Fringe Trader uses Google Analytics and Ahrefs Web Analytics to understand visits, page usage, and general browser and device information. If you select “Allow analytics,” both services receive measurement data about your visit. Google Analytics cookies can distinguish visits and returning browsers.
Neither service starts until you allow analytics. If you decline, both remain off. TFT disables Google's advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalization, and Google signals features.
Your stored choice and cookies
Your browser remembers your allow or decline choice for 180 days, along with the date you made it and when it expires. This preference stays in your browser's local storage and is not sent to either analytics service.
If you previously allowed Google Analytics before TFT added Ahrefs, you will be asked to choose again. An earlier decline still applies until it expires or you change it.
If your browser cannot remember preferences, your choice applies to the current page and you may be asked again on the next page. Analytics stays off if the site cannot retrieve and update your previous choice.
After consent, Google Analytics may set _ga and _ga_DD20DKZKDX cookies. These expire after 180 days; returning to the site does not extend that period. You will be asked again when your choice expires, or if you clear your browser storage.
Change or withdraw your choice
Use “Privacy settings” in the footer on any page. If you change your choice to decline, analytics stops, this site's Google Analytics cookies are removed, and the page refreshes. This does not delete measurements already sent to Google or Ahrefs.
Information sent to Google
Google can receive pages visited, timestamps, referring pages, browser and device information, and cookie-based identifiers. TFT removes query strings and section links—the parts after ? and #—from the page and referrer addresses it supplies. The site's calculators run in your browser; TFT does not send their input values to Analytics.
Google processes analytics data using its infrastructure, which may be outside your country. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google's privacy policy for details.
Information sent to Ahrefs
Ahrefs describes its default Web Analytics tracker as cookieless. It collects page addresses, referrers, browser and device information, language, and interactions such as link clicks and form submissions. TFT removes query strings and section links from the page address it supplies and does not send calculator input values through custom analytics events.
Ahrefs says it derives country and city from the request's IP address, discards the raw address, and uses a daily changing hash to count visitors. Ahrefs may use aggregated data to improve its services and publish studies. TFT still waits for your analytics permission before loading its tracker.
Read Ahrefs' explanation of Web Analytics data collection and Ahrefs' privacy policy for more information.
Hosting and external links
Cloudflare delivers and protects this website. Serving a page involves technical information such as your IP address and request details, independently of optional analytics. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Links to YouTube, TradingView, and X open those services, where their own privacy practices apply. Displaying those links on TFT does not activate those services' trackers.
Contact form
The contact form is currently unavailable. Text entered into it is not sent to TFT or saved as a draft. Visit the Contact page for the available contact options. If you use an external service to contact TFT, that service's privacy practices apply.
Advertising, affiliates, and payments
This website does not currently load advertising tags or affiliate tracking, offer user accounts, or process payments. See the advertising and affiliate disclosure and refunds and cancellations page. Changes that introduce new data collection will be reflected in this notice and the relevant choices before they take effect.
Privacy rights and concerns
Depending on the law that applies to your circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of your personal data, or to object to certain processing. These rights have conditions and exceptions. You may also be entitled to raise a concern with the data protection authority responsible for your circumstances.
Use the Contact page for the available ways to raise a privacy question or request. You can withdraw optional analytics permission using “Privacy settings” without making a request.