Privacy on the Blow Up The City Wiki

Last updated 2026-09-11

Short version: this site keeps its own small hit log, runs Google Analytics 4. Each of those sets cookies or reports back to a third party. The longer version below says exactly what each one collects, because "we respect your privacy" is not information.

What this site stores about a visit

A visit writes one row to our own storage. Every row holds the address that was requested (trimmed to 80 characters), the two-letter country code Cloudflare attaches to the request, the domain of the page the visit arrived from if there was one, and a label for what kind of visit it was: a human reader, a crawler, a request for an address this site does not serve, or our own test traffic.

For a crawler the row also records which class of crawler it was — Googlebot, Bingbot, an AI crawler, another search engine, or an unclassified bot. For a human reader that field is empty.

There is no per-visitor value in the row at all: no IP address, no full user-agent string, no cookie, no device identifier, and nothing calculated from any of those. One reader opening ninety pages and ninety readers opening one page each leave the same kind of row behind, because nothing stored can tell those two cases apart.

Page requests, requests for addresses this site does not have, and unrecognised crawlers are all recorded — we keep the class of each one rather than dropping the noisy ones, and that is exactly what lets the counts separate readers from scans. Static file requests (images, stylesheets, the icon) are normally served without waking the worker at all, and requests to our own thumbnail proxy are answered before the log is reached, so those are the only two things that do not appear.

Rows expire automatically after 90 days. There is no export, no profile, and nothing joined to anything else.

Google Analytics 4

This site runs Google Analytics 4, loaded on every page from its own script host at googletagmanager.com (measurement ID G-EZ90DY84ZH). It sets first-party cookies on this domain — named _ga and _ga_* — holding a randomly generated identifier for your browser, not your name or any account you hold anywhere.

In general terms, it collects which pages you view, an approximate location worked out from your connection (typically city or region, not a precise address), your device and browser type, the site or search engine you arrived from, and the anonymous client identifier stored in the cookies above.

Google processes this data under its own privacy policy, not ours: policies.google.com/privacy. Google's own documentation states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses; that is Google's claim about its own product, not something we have independently verified.

To opt out: install Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on, block requests to googletagmanager.com with a content or DNS blocker, or turn on your browser's built-in tracking protection.

Hosting

The site runs on Cloudflare. As with any host, Cloudflare processes the request in order to deliver the page and sees your IP address in doing so. We do not receive that address, and we do not store it.

Younger visitors

Roblox has a young audience and it is likely some readers here are children. We do not collect any personally identifying information ourselves, from anyone, of any age — the hit log above is the entirety of what we keep, and it cannot be traced to a person. Google Analytics 4, described above, runs the same way for every visitor regardless of age; the opt-out methods listed there work the same way regardless of age too.

If this changes

This page was last revised on 2026-09-11. If a new third party is added, this page is updated before it goes live rather than after, with a new date at the top.

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