Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
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Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
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Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#2To mitigate security loss (Piwik is complex), run Piwik and serve its gif on another machine.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#3Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule:
/piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script
This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#4Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule: /piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.
The default Piwik Sandstorm install has "piwik" nowhere in the URL.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#5I would love to have Sandstorm on my RasPi but they don't support ARM.
It sounds like a great home intranet.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#6Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule: /piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.
It's very easy to rename (or symlink) the piwik.js script to something else that is not blocked by any filter list. And unless you're a major site nobody will bother creating a special rule just for your self-hosted Piwik.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#7To mitigate security loss (Piwik is complex), run Piwik and serve its gif on another machine.
Can you elaborate a bit more?
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#8If you're serving the pages yourself (not, as this site does, through Cloudflare's caches), what does this tell you that isn't in the server logs?
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#9Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule: /piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.
The default Piwik Sandstorm install has "piwik" nowhere in the URL.
Yeah, unfortunately it shows up as https://ls4an735rucvfa6ps6bb.filippo.sandcats.io/embed.js - it's getting to the point where I need to start performing actual content inspection.
Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
#10The biggest problem with Piwik is that is not scalable and the cost ($) with servers to store analytics data. I saw many cases that Piwik not supported the big volume of data.