Privacy

Last updated: 25 September 2026

noob2root is a personal security-research site. It is built to collect as little about you as possible. This page explains what that means in practice.

The short version

• No account or login is needed to read anything here.
• No advertising, and no third-party analytics or tracking.
• No tracking cookies. Fonts and images are served from this site, not third parties.
• Nothing about you is sold, rented or shared for marketing.

What is stored in your browser

The site remembers your light/dark theme choice in your browser's local storage. That preference stays on your device, is not personal information, and is never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data removes it.

Server & security logs

Like almost every website, the underlying hosting and content-delivery infrastructure automatically processes standard request data — such as your IP address, browser user-agent and the pages requested — to serve the site, keep it available, and protect it against attacks and abuse. These logs are used only for operating and securing the site and are not used to build a profile of you.

If you subscribe to new posts

If you subscribe by email, the site stores your email address, whether you have confirmed it, and when you subscribed, confirmed or unsubscribed. It uses them for one thing only: sending you one email when a new post is published. Nothing else is sent, the list is never shared or sold, and the emails contain no tracking pixels or tracked links.

• Subscribing is double opt-in: nothing is sent to your address except the confirmation email until you click the link in it. Unconfirmed sign-ups are never emailed again.
• Every email has an unsubscribe link, and mail apps' built-in "Unsubscribe" button works too. Unsubscribing takes effect immediately.
• The list is kept in this site's own database on Cloudflare, and the emails are sent through Cloudflare's email service. No newsletter company is involved.
• To stop sign-up abuse, the form counts attempts per visitor for an hour using a one-way hash of your IP address. The IP address itself is never stored.
• To have your address deleted entirely rather than just unsubscribed, email hello@noob2root.com.

If you'd rather not give an email address at all, the RSS feed gets every new post too.

If you email

If you contact hello@noob2root.com, your email and its contents are used only to read and reply to your message. They are not added to any mailing list.

Your choices

Because the site sets no tracking cookies and runs no analytics, there is nothing to opt out of beyond the email subscription, which you only have if you asked for it. You can browse with an ad-blocker, a VPN or Tor without losing functionality, and clear the stored theme preference at any time.

Children

This site is intended for security professionals, students and enthusiasts, and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

This policy may be updated; the "last updated" date above reflects the current version.

Contact

Privacy questions: hello@noob2root.com.