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Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

Suggestion: the access logs your web server collects are enough for basic analytics, and if you are curious for more, you can manually instrument your site a little. You don't need to give Google the power to spy on your users.

Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by yuribro »

panpanna wrote: post #2

How about the 500 other tracking/analytics companies? Even Adobe is now in analytics business.

From the screenshot in the article, it looks like many other trackers are blocked as well. It's just less title worthy than Google's.

Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by nwellnhof »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

Suggestion: the access logs your web server collects are enough for basic analytics, and if you are curious for more, you can manually instrument your site a little. You don't need to give Google the power to spy on your users.

Here's another suggestion: Learn how to configure Google Analytics properly.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397?hl=en

"If all [data sharing] settings are OFF, your Analytics data is only used to provide and maintain the Analytics service."

Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

nwellnhof wrote: post #6
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

Suggestion: the access logs your web server collects are enough for basic analytics, and if you are curious for more, you can manually instrument your site a little. You don't need to give Google the power to spy on your users.

Here's another suggestion: Learn how to configure Google Analytics properly. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397?hl=en "If all [data sharing] settings are OFF, your Analytics data is only used to provide and maintain the Analytics service."

IIRC you can thank Mozilla for that setting!

Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by dave_aiello »

I have no love for Google Analytics, but as a small-scale publisher, I have serious questions about what tools can replace it:

1) Which analytics can a website employ that is not geared toward enriching the analytics platform developer by violating site visitor privacy?

2) Do those analytics mechanisms have any kind of aftermarket, such that third-party developers integrate it into publishing platforms that publishers use.

3) What do those analytics mechanisms and the associated tooling cost?

Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

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Post by simcop2387 »

dave_aiello wrote: post #8

I have no love for Google Analytics, but as a small-scale publisher, I have serious questions about what tools can replace it: 1) Which analytics can a website employ that is not geared toward enriching the analytics platform developer by violating site visitor privacy? 2) Do those analytics mechanisms have any kind of aftermarket, such that third-party developers integrate it into publishing platforms that publisher…

I'm not sure about all of your questions but there's platforms like matomo out there, that seem to be able to handle some of the use cases for ga.

Matomo: #1 Secure Open Web Analytics Platform https://matomo.org/

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