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Spideroak doesn't and cannot dedupe, since everything you upload is encrypted by a key held only by you.
Spideroak can and does dedupe client side before uploading. It can't dedupe across multiple clients, but it does dedupe within the client. It also tracks syncs so that data synced between multiple client machines only has to be stored once (with appropriate redundancy).
Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…
This has been my experience as well, not to mention how much the client slowed down my machine. It's been really slow going but the client is getting better. I never tried doing the encryption on my side, though, they also do diffs on each file you upload so I imagine that has something to do with the lag. I still use spideroak, they're the only company I'm aware of that encrypts locally and also has done a lot to pr…
Is it just me or is this a click-bait title with hollow content?
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http://snowplowanalytics.com/ is worth considering if you have larger volumes of traffic
Why not for low volume sites?
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Being paid for doing work by those who need the work done is the opposite of "extracting rent".
Being paid for doing work has nothing to do with extracting rent , which is the practice of inserting yourself as a middleman so other people have to pay you "rent"[1] where none should be required. The entire idea behind writing a Service as a Software Substitute[2] is about extracting rent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking [2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
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>>> I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion. Ah, the "not invented here" syndrome! There are tons of things that you could do "in a couple of weeks" that more or less work. However, it doesn't mean you have to or even that it would be a good idea. If all developers adopted the attitude that…
The answer is open source. Where is the wordpress to google's analytics product?
Then the question is do you really want to maintain the infrastructure required to run the analytics smoothly? Especially if your company has dozens of millions of pageviews a month and depends on the real time needs (extra infrastructure to support that).
Are you familiar enough with the stack so you could have a high degree of confidence that you can fix productions issues which are inevitable? Quite often, an honest answer here is 'no'. Then can you afford to lose a few hours/days/weeks (whatever it would take to fix the issue) of data? Again, often the answer here is 'no'.
Of course, you have hosted solutions. But they are no better than GA in terms of privacy.
Paid support exists too but the cost can skyrocket pretty quickly, on top of paying for the infrastructure and maintaining it.
> It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package. Unfortunately, there's no way to replicate what Google Analytics currently offers (for free!) within a couple of weeks (or even months). Not with big data sets. Yes, GA does enforce sampling if you don't pay for GA Premium, but the free edition is still one of hell of a deal (if you don't care about privacy). If you only use Google Analytics as a…
You also underestimate how ubiquitous GA is because it's free and extremely popular. I'd consider myself an intermediate to advanced user of GA, but for people less experienced, I can easily share stuff with them for complicated tasks or they know how to do a lot of the basics themselves.
In hiring digital marketing people, GA is pretty much on par with Word in terms of familiarity. It's something a lot of people have a basic competence with.
Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…
This comment is ridiculous, and so is the fact that it's at the top. This is supposed to be about Google Analytics, come on.
>why does Google and their advertisers need to know about it I would ask Google is pretty clear about this. The only reason they track you is for advertising, and there isn't any evidence of them using the info for anything else. In fact there is a lot of evidence pointing the other way, such as their insistence on encryption data flowing between their datacenters. This is Google we are talking about, not Kazakhstan,…
This inference doesn't even need to be intentional, machine learning is capable of accidentally picking up on latent variables. Even if your neighborhood (the original redlining) isn't a feature in the original variable, it could be inferred from the other variables.
TL;DR: Your surfing behavior could be used to deny you a home loan one day.
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/google-launches-mortgage-sh...
[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/big_data...
Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…
Could the issue be caused by bad peering between your ISPs?