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I was thinking about switching to log based user tracking some time ago. Not because of big brother issues, but rather my intention was to remove the cookie banner non sense required by EU. No cookies, no banner required, right? I mean there are sure some downsides, but in current stage of our analytics, logs should hold enough information for analytics we need.
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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 dedicated feature for bypassing ad blockers [1] because we think page views are not privacy invasive. We drop IP addresses from every request so there is no personal data in our database or logs. If you really want to block you can enable the…
The privacy game is about power, not about who is doing what right now. People shun Google's data collection because of what Google can do with the data, not what it has done or is doing; it only takes a single case of data misuse to reveal the power dynamics even if nothing has happened to them personally. You don't have to play the privacy game -- there is a lot of space between really respecting user's privacy and…