Privacy

We don't ask who you are, and we have no way of finding out. There are no accounts, no logins, no advertising, and no analytics. Nothing you do on DaoSearch is tied to you, because there is no “you” for us to tie it to.

DaoSearch sets none. Your theme, the ranking view you last looked at, and how you like booklists sorted are kept in your browser's own local storage — they never leave your device and never reach our servers. Clearing your browser data resets them and nothing else.

The same thing every web server sees: the page you asked for, your IP address, and your browser's user agent. We use it to serve the page and to keep the site up, and we don't build profiles from it.

We also record how long pages take to render, so we can find the slow ones. Those timings are grouped by page — “the browse page took 40ms” — never by visitor.

Cloudflare sits in front of the site to deliver it quickly and absorb abuse, so requests pass through their network under their own privacy policy.

DaoSearch shows reader comments from the source platforms, and deliberately does not store who wrote them. Usernames and avatars are discarded on the way in; each commenter becomes a stable pseudonym like Reader-4f21c8 so a conversation still reads as a conversation. We keep no way to reverse it.

Book covers are loaded from the source platforms' own image servers, and we ask your browser not to tell them where you came from. Links to Qidian, Discord, RandomTranslator and Narratorr leave DaoSearch, and once you follow one you're covered by that site's policy rather than ours.

If something here isn't clear, or you think we're holding something we shouldn't be, write to us and we'll answer.