Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by f311a » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
blog.cloudflare.com

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Post by ethor » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:24 PM UTC

I don’t know if it’s already known, but I guess this will provide useful data against webcrawlers and scrapers.

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Post by frankzander » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

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Post by f311a » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

frankzander wrote: post #3

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

I think it's definitely better than Google Analytics. It also does not require cookies, so you don't need to display the GDPR banner.

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Post by zaroth » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

> The concept of a “visit” is key to this approach. Rather than count unique IP addresses, which would require storing state about what each visitor does, we can simply count the number of page views that come from a different site. This provides a perfectly usable metric that doesn’t compromise on privacy.

Say that again please? Is this tracking unique Referrer’s? What if a significant amount of traffic is direct?

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Post by fretn » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

frankzander wrote: post #3

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

can you explain this a bit more ? I'm not up to date on what cloudflare has been doing lately or in the past privacy wise

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Post by D13Fd » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

Anyone know how this compares to simpleanalytics.com? The data looks pretty similar.

I've been using Simpleanalytics, which is pretty good overall, but they keep messing with their site and breaking things...

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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:35 PM UTC

frankzander wrote: post #3

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

Are you going to make a substantive claim or just throw around accusations with no foundation?

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Post by WayToDoor » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

Even tho I'm septic about Cloudflare privacy-first policy, this sounds like a great alternative to "giving all your users data to Google".

Also, if your site is already behind CF, it's not like you give them much more information than they already have.

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Post by quyleanh » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 2:42 PM UTC

What will be its key advantage over Google Analytics? Privacy and speed?