Make your website a black hole to big tech

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:22 PM UTC

sdan wrote: post #13

alanfranz wrote: post #2

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

I'm building one that's both cheaper (mostly free but at most $2 a month) and faster than Fathom. I'm onboarding some customers but I'm planning to launch in January! http://sdan.io/pingpong If you want to stay updated, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/BZA7thD878PbKnSs8 and I'll keep in touch soon.

Post by coldpie » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:35 PM UTC

alanfranz wrote: post #2

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

Post by tr33house » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:37 PM UTC

ibudiallo wrote: post #38

Most people I know with small websites will not pay $15/month for analytics. The privacy part of it is also not really the concern of small website owners. This is not to dismiss Fathom entirely. But there are free alternative (with server setup cost) that keeps your data private: Matomo (formerly Piwik). I've run it in parallel with Google Analytics and it was the closest replacement I could find. But again, small w…

Post by thinkxl » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:42 PM UTC

curlyPubes wrote: post #4

So... "big tech" is bad because spying on users is scummy behavior, but please do pay us to help you spy on your users. Also, we'll provide you with tools to spy on your users, but it's software as a service and everything important happens on our servers, where we get to keep all the logs we show you, of the events that we capture from your website. So, yes, we'll be intercepting that data, and we'll know things the…

Post by dinkleberg » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:44 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #43

alanfranz wrote: post #2

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

I also have a personal website and I just... don't put any analytics on it. Genuinely curious: what do you get out of having analytics on a personal site?