No Analytics. No Surveillance. Just Law.

🔒 No Analytics. No Surveillance. Just Law.

Most legal websites rely heavily on free tracking tools from Google, Meta (Facebook), and others, turning your private legal searches into marketing data. Public.Law is different:

• Google Analytics is removed.
• No Meta (Facebook) tracking.
• No third-party scripts silently monitoring your activity.

Instead, we rely entirely on simple server-side logs for usage insights, combined with anonymized error monitoring for site stability.

When Something Breaks, Here’s What We See (and Nothing More)

We use Sentry to detect and fix errors quickly, without invasive user tracking.

Here’s an example of a "rage click"—a user repeatedly clicking on an unresponsive area:

🚫 Blocking Meta Tracking by Design

We actively prevent third-party trackers, including Meta (Facebook), from loading through a Content Security Policy (CSP)—a built-in firewall feature of your browser.

Here's a real CSP log entry showing how we blocked a Facebook tracking script:

Blocked URI: https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/pcm.js  
Violated Directive: script-src-elem  
Referrer: http://m.facebook.com

Instead of allowing Meta to quietly track you, our CSP immediately rejects the script.

Ads and Privacy-Friendly Upgrades

Ads currently support our site, and these ads can send data to ad networks like Google AdSense. However, if you choose to support Public.Law with a pay-what-you-want monthly contribution:

• Ads are completely removed.
• Third-party data exfiltration drops to zero.
• Your visit is clean, private, and fast.

Why This Matters

Legal research often covers sensitive topics—criminal issues, family matters, or civil rights. At Public.Law:

• We don’t track who you are.
• We don’t share your browsing habits.
• We don’t trade privacy for profit.

Your privacy matters to us. We think it should matter to every legal website.