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Adriaan from the article here. You are right. HN is the right target group for Simple Analytics. If I had posted a totally different product with no privacy angle or interest for H…

Added Simple Analytics [1] [1] https://simpleanalytics.com

It seems like you’re saying it’s nice to know the layers of abstraction but it sounds like you don’t use it in real life. As a non CS degree developer I can’t really see anything t…

Thanks! For others, listen to it here: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17575156/mark-zuckerberg-inter...

They need to change their business model to be able to become privacy friendly, I totally agree. Not even sure which huge company is privacy friendly. Maybe it's not even possible …

Yes, will definitely ask about that.

Thanks. That would be interesting to know. One thing; what do you mean with measure it?

This Thursday I'm invited to a privacy roundtable with Facebook Legal and Privacy Policy teams in Amsterdam. The round table will be with other entrepreneurs and experts in the pri…

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What do you mean? I think using CloudFront is not accurate enough if you use caching.

Not at the moment. We will implement tracking user flow with in a privacy minded way. I asked Hacker News a while ago if they would think it was privacy friendly [1] To be clear ab…

If your business is to track people, yes. If it's to gather statistics without tracking people (like page views), I think it perfectly fine to bypass ad blockers. We even have a de…

> However this still requires setting up the image on a third-party server. While this is true, we found a solution to bypass ad blockers (which could be implemented by Google Anal…

It's removed by Google, all search result clicks go through an intermediate URL that removes the keywords. You can have some information from the Google URL [1]. [1] https://webmas…

Love what you are doing here. A few points: 1. I would rename the pixel.png to something like image.png. Never call your script anything like tracking, analytics, or pixel when you…

As the founder of Simple Analytics I know a bit about the profitably of the company. It is making profit but it’s not enough yet to sustain my lifestyle completely. I do some freel…

> Now that we're bootstrapping, we've shifted away from a freemium business model (where users could optionally pay if they wanted) to a paid-only model after a free trial. I think…

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Ah, good point. We already do so it's just a matter of not sending the email address to Stripe. Thank you for the suggestion. Added this to our roadmap: https://simpleanalytics.io/…

This is a good point. We are moving to a dedicated server to resolve this issue.

Iceland has 100% green energy and their location is slightly better. Maybe the biggest plus is their laws.

This seems to work for links, but does it work for when you embed a script? > [...] by using the referrerpolicy attribute on , , , , or elements Hm, seems not to work for scripts.

I think protection by the NSA is a though sell nowadays.

A little note on hosting companies. In Europe at least there are corporations that only host data in Europe and don't use any hosting companies from the US. This is a question whic…

Good point which I forgot to mention in the article. There are not a Linodes or Digital Oceans in Iceland so it’s definitely more expensive. I think it’s safe to say it’s almost do…