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Our first-party readership counter records daily article-view totals, broad traffic sources, Facebook post identifiers and whether a page remains visible for at least 30 seconds. It uses no cookies or persistent visitor identifiers and stores no IP addresses or full referrer URLs. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals disable this counter. Aggregate readership counts are visible in the open Desk. These counts are estimates, not unique-person totals.