While it certainly blocks it by default in the new Safari beta, can anyone confirm if the existing Safari which already blocked third party trackers explicitly blocked google analytics?
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
#12That little rumour about Apple buying DuckDuckGo seem to make more and more sense by the day.
DDG is also front and center in the Big Sur new features for safari page.
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#13How about the 500 other tracking/analytics companies? Even Adobe is now in analytics business.
I think the biggest problem is one entity having insights on all web users and all the sites they visit. If each site had their own internal analytics, which are limited to that domain only and maybe only session-bassed, the privacy improvements would be huge.
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#14That little rumour about Apple buying DuckDuckGo seem to make more and more sense by the day.
DDG is also front and center in the Big Sur new features for safari page. https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/
If you lookup street addresses within DDG it now returns a result with AppleMaps.
I don't mind this but I hope they've partnered with Apple and not sold out.
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
DDG is also front and center in the Big Sur new features for safari page. https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/
If you lookup street addresses within DDG it now returns a result with AppleMaps. I don't mind this but I hope they've partnered with Apple and not sold out.
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Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#16I 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…
Goat Counter (yeah, weird name) seems to be getting popular, and it's Open Source:
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#17I 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 think collecting analytics from the server logs is going to get more popular again, though a problem for SPAs? We could call it Edge Analytics this time around and run it on cloudflare.
For publishing systems, couldn't wordpress report back analytics data to itself, on its own domain? Something like that existed but i'm not sure if it was using Jetpack servers or not. If this isn't already possible, it seems like an obvious thing for someone privacy concious to build.
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#18That little rumour about Apple buying DuckDuckGo seem to make more and more sense by the day.
If that happens, it's safe to assume that Apple will simply try to replicate Google's business model. iAds may have been a failure, but I would imagine digital ad market is simply too lucrative for Apple to leave to Google and Facebook (and Bing and Yahoo/Verizon) alone.
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#19I'm wondering how self-hosted solutions like Matomo will be treated?
Re: Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
DDG is also front and center in the Big Sur new features for safari page. https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/
If you lookup street addresses within DDG it now returns a result with AppleMaps. I don't mind this but I hope they've partnered with Apple and not sold out.
I've had that for what I though was 2 years, so I looked it up and it appears they partnered with Apple back in Jan 2019.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183653/duckduckgo-apple...