“Last night's sunset.”
Press record
Press
Selected attributed voices, public references, recognition, and responses to Since You Arrived. Public sources are linked where available.
01 / Selected voice
What people said
The opening record is followed by a concise selection. The complete attributed record remains available below.
“loved the tone, typography and disclosure.”
Miguel de Icaza
Founded GNOME. Created Mono. Founded Xamarin. Former Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. FSF Award 1999. Time 100 Innovators 2000.
Mastodon · May 9, 2026“Oh my. This is spectacular.”
Ross Floate
Design strategist, Floate Design Partners (Melbourne). 25-year career; host of The Nudge podcast.
Bluesky · May 8, 2026“Tremendous. A real public service, genuinely.”
Graham W. Jenkins
Adjunct fellow, American Security Project. Consultant, Ernst & Young Cyber Economics. From someone whose day job is cyber-defense strategy.
Bluesky · May 9, 2026“Great idea: a web page that simply shows you the info your browser sends about you and your system whenever you open a web page.”
Peter Suber
Foundational figure of the Open Access movement. Formerly Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Author of Open Access (MIT Press, 2012).
Mastodon · May 10, 2026Included Taken in Pluralistic’s May 11 link list.
Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic · May 11, 2026Read the full attributed record
“Even if you reject every cookie and hide behind a VPN, there's a flood of other information harvested from your device every visit.”
Séamus Bellamy
Contributor at Boing Boing. Wrote the May 18 article about Taken and browser fingerprinting.
BoingBoing · May 18, 2026“A great advertisement for running a VPN, because I can delight in what it gets wrong.”
Derek Powazek
Made Fray in 1996, one of the earliest webzines. Worked on Blogger pre-Google. Wrote Design for Community (2001).
Bluesky · May 9, 2026“Why was the web designed so a website gets so much information about its visitors?”
Jill Walker Rettberg
Co-Director, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen. Lead PI, AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Bluesky · May 9, 2026“A Black-Mirror-esque zine based on data.”
Chris Silverman
Writer at Shortform. The framing that travels best: an entire genre named in five words.
shortform.csilverman.com · May 9, 2026“Everyone should know this.”
Brandy Schillace
Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Medical Humanities. Simon & Schuster author. Host of Peculiar Book Club.
Bluesky · May 9, 2026“Taken: this is a web page that shows how much data your browser can collect that websites can use to “fingerprint” your device, even without cookies.”
Jason Kottke
Publisher of kottke.org, an independent website founded in 1998.
kottke.org · May 11, 2026“This is basically an Ian McKellen impersonator doing a dramatic reading of your HTTP request headers and IP address.”
“This series of websites is a remarkable effort to capture a moment. Vol II rather poetically paints the picture you might not have seen last night as the sun set, and is my favorite. Great website authorship, through and through.”
Andy Stevens
Poet and writer (andystevens.name). Bookmarked the full series via indieweb h-cite microformat, engaging with the work as a series rather than a single volume.
andystevens.name · May 12, 2026“How easy it is for companies to be creepy and build a fingerprint on you, using information the browser happily hands over.”
Andy Bell
Co-founder of Set Studio with Heydon Pickering. Author of Every Layout and CUBE CSS. Founded Piccalilli in 2018 — indie design publication, anti-hype, anti-AI-slop, pro-craft.
Piccalilli, The Index #182 · May 15, 2026“If you really wanna get a sense of how creepy this all is, check this out.”
Elaine Burke
Journalist and broadcaster. Host of For Tech's Sake and Connected AI Podcast. Recurring RTÉ contributor. The broadcaster, not the page, reached for /taken to make the data-brokerage argument feel concrete to a non-technical audience. First broadcast-media surface in the record.
RTÉ Radio 1 Drivetime · May 14, 2026“A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.”
Sidebar.io
Daily design-link curation since 2012, founded by Sacha Greif. Catalogued /taken under the UX category, framing the page as interaction design rather than a privacy demo — a lens no other voice on this page uses.
Sidebar.io · May 12, 2026“This is what free costs.”
Jamie Thingelstad
CTO of SPS Commerce. Founding CTO of BigCharts. Writes Weekly Thing every Sunday — a 348-issue consecutive run. Issue #348 themed Agents as Collaborators; the heading itself links to /taken and bridges into a privacy-legislation argument: exhibit A for the case being made in the room he is in.
Weekly Thing #348 · May 17, 2026“We give away reams of information about ourselves online and don't even know it.”
Emmet Ryan
Business / Innovation columnist at The Irish Times. First Irish national-newspaper article on /taken, distinct from the RTÉ Drivetime broadcast. Writes for mainstream readers, not the privacy community — translates the page into ordinary internet-hygiene terms. The non-HN audience /taken was built to reach.
The Irish Times · May 14, 202602 / Recognition
Industry recognition
Design awards, followed by the people and fields that found an entry point into the work.
Design recognition
- AwwwardsHonorable Mention · Since You Arrived · 2026
- CSS Design AwardsSpecial Kudos · Discovered · 2026
Across disciplines
Privacy Law
Simon McGarrSchrems I, Digital Rights Ireland, European data-protection precedent.
Cultural Journalism
Steve RoseAssistant features editor, The Guardian.
PL Theory + EU Digital Policy
Manuel ChakravartyHaskell, Agda, Volt EU digital-policy advisor, Utrecht.
Academic IT-Security
Marcel WaldvogelFull Professor, University of Konstanz. Chair of Distributed Systems, DNIP.ch.
Indieweb Scholarship
Frank MeeuwsenAuthor of Bloghelden. Indieweb NL, Utrecht.
Enterprise IT Publishing
Paul Thurrottthurrott.com founder and editor. 25+ years on Windows, Microsoft, and enterprise tech.
AI Ethics
Lorena Fernández ÁlvarezUniversity of Deusto AI Commission, Bilbao.
AI / ML Engineering
HanClinto / Clint HerronLlama.cpp contributor. Public profile-README endorsement.
Bookmarking + Archive Culture
Maciej Cegłowskipinboard.in. #1 Popular Bookmarks for three consecutive days.
Comedy + Theatre Writing
Simon KaneShunt, Mitchell & Webb, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme.
Horror Poetry
LindaAnn LoSchiavoPushcart-nominated poet. Has a Wikipedia entry. Author of A Route Obscure and Lonely.
Pedagogy
meskLewis & Clark. Teaches with /taken in their digital media classes.
Adtech & Martech
Jonathan DrakeSelf-described "technical hitman." NorthStarCustomers (book + agency). The audience Taken is about, recognizing himself in it. Seeded the next volume.
Web-Development Publishing
Daniel SchwarzEditor at CSS-Tricks and LogRocket. Byline from one of the tier-1 web-development publications, reading /taken with the practitioner's eye.
Games Journalism
Graham SmithFormer editorial director of Rock Paper Shotgun. Former editor-in-chief of PC Gamer. Carried /taken in The Lie-In #15 at Jank with a clean link-line.
03 / Responses
Audience responses
Four distinct works prompted by the series: a creative response, code clone, feature request, and translation.
What You Allow
Adams wrote a creative response in Taken's own voice and published it within twenty-four hours of the launch, porting the data-line cadence to his own midlife.
Baolu Browser
A Chinese-language code clone of Taken, published five days post-launch by 小众软件 (Appinn). The first time the format reproduced in another language.
Vivaldi privacy feature request
A Vivaldi user filed a privacy feature request with the browser vendor, citing Taken specifically as the prompt.
被拿走的东西 (Things Taken Away)
A Chinese translation of Taken on Cloudflare Pages, with an explicit colophon crediting the original. Carries the work across a language barrier while preserving its identity, structure, and citations.
04 / Verified references
Around the world
A dated record of public references we have verified. Publication dates and verification dates are kept distinct.
Helped or Not Helped? You Don’t Know.
Carrie Warner
Published Aug 6, 2026 · verified Aug 31, 2026
Technology Enthusiast Weekly #396
Ruan Yifeng
Published May 15, 2026 · verified Sep 2, 2026
Zuckersüß 537
Jana Wiese
Published Aug 30, 2026 · verified Aug 31, 2026
Making Cybersecurity Real for Students
Code.org teacher forum
Published May 11, 2026 · verified Aug 31, 2026
Briefing #71
DNIP
Published May 12, 2026 · verified Sep 3, 2026
05 / Publication record
Also covered by
A grouped record of publications, newsletters, broadcasts, communities, and galleries that referenced the work.
Editorial & newsletters
- The New Yorker, Goings OnRachel Syme · P.S. Good stuff on the internet · Vol II Sky · May 15
- The Irish TimesEmmet Ryan · Business / Innovation · May 14 · first Irish national-newspaper article
- BoingBoingSéamus Bellamy · May 18 · top-3 cultural-tech reach · syndicated by MSN Tech / Cybersecurity
- PluralisticCory Doctorow, May 11 linkdump, first link
- PiccalilliAndy Bell · The Index #182 · UK indie design press
- Weekly Thing #348Jamie Thingelstad · 348-issue consecutive run
- kottke.orgCurating since 1998
- Tech Enthusiast WeeklyRuan Yifeng, Issue 396, top placement
- Web CuriosApril 24 item
- Six ThingsLev Parikian
- JankGraham Smith · The Lie-In #15
- ShortformChris Silverman
- Mike Riversdale
- DNIP.ch
- Bager's Bits
- vlko / blog.vyvojari.dev
- margemnewsletter
- Digging the Digital
- Deplatformable
- aliquote.orgChristophe Lalanne · French-language, first French surface
- alt0.nlDutch privacy reference · shelved with No More Ransom, VirusTotal
- ahastudio/tilKorean developer TIL · detailed mechanism breakdown
Broadcast & community
- RTÉ Radio 1 DrivetimeVia Elaine Burke · May 14 · first broadcast-media surface
- Binärgewitter Talk #380German tech podcast · Top of Picks · 380+ episodes
- Sidebar.ioSacha Greif · UX pick · May 12 · daily design curation since 2012
- Hacker News#1 front page · May 8 launch
- MetaFilterVol I and Vol IV, separately
- Lobsters#1
- r/WeirdWebsitesSustained pickup · May 12
- r/InternetIsBeautifulVol II · #1 for 24 hours · 88K views
- Privacy@lemmy.ml
- Pinboard#1 for three days
- Wykop.plPolish-language
- GeekNewsKorean-language
- AppinnChinese-language
Galleries
- One Page LoveLetter #87, Vol II
- Land-book
- Single Serving Sites
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