www.btbytes.com is the personal website, blog, and digital garden of Pradeep Gowda, online since 2003.
Your privacy is respected by default: This site does not require registration, does not set tracking cookies, does not run advertisements, and never sells, rents, or shares personal information with third parties.
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This website is completely independent and ad-free. No visitor data is ever sold or monetized.
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As a digital garden and commonplace book, www.btbytes.com contains thousands of curated links to external articles, papers, software repositories, and websites. Clicking an external link takes you to a third-party domain governed by its own privacy policy and practices.
Any future updates to this privacy policy will be published directly on this page (https://www.btbytes.com/privacy.html) with a revised effective date.
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