nobody here
knows who you are
Not us either. Here is exactly what that means, and the two places it stops being true.
we never ask who you are
no email, no password, no phone number. you type a name, and the page exists. that is the whole signup, unless you later choose to attach a google account — which is the catch at the end of this page.
your browser remembers. we forget on a timer.
a handful of small notes get left in your browser — cookies, if you have heard the word. a random number that means nothing anywhere else, which pages you hold the key to, which one counts as you right now, and the language you read in. none of them has your name in it, because we never asked for it. on our side, the note that you opened a page is deleted after two days.
even the random number gets scrambled
before anything is written down, that number is scrambled into something we cannot turn back. same with the address your connection shows: it is used for a moment to stop one computer making a thousand pages, and it is never kept.
sending someone a song doesn't sign it
they see the track. they do not see you. there is no box to sign it, and nothing on either page says who sent what.
a like is just a number going up
nobody is ever shown who liked what — not the owner of the page, not anyone. we do record which of your own pages liked something, so the list of pages you like is still there when you come back, and that list is only ever shown to you. one like per browser is the reason that note cannot be thrown away.
one thing here has your name on it
Take a song off somebody’s page onto your own, and your page says where you got it. For good. That is the point of it: a nod nobody can trace back is worth nothing to the person who found the track first. Nothing takes a song for you — you have to choose to.
the catch
We cannot get your page back for you, because we do not know who you are. The link is the key and it is the only one. Keep it somewhere, or attach the page to a Google account — which stores your email address next to the page, and is the only reason we would ever be able to give it back. That is a trade, and it is yours to make. Nothing else here knows your email.