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

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

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post #5

> 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?

Also I thought browsers didn’t browser a referer for https?

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

#12

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

Since it does not require cookies, you don't need to display the GDPR consent banner.

I think it's a good solution for small side projects when you don't need very accurate analytics.

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

#13
post #8

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

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

Particularly in a topic specifically about a product competing with google. Like, GOOGLE! It's almost impossible not to be more privacy respecting / enforcing.

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

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post #5

> 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?

Also I thought browsers didn’t browser a referer for https?

Assuming here we mean individual "sessions", eg. session cookies which are removed after you navigate away from the site. Will have to read their JS to see what they're doing.

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

#16
post #4

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.

I think you mean does not*?

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

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post #5

> 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?

using referrer to detetect unique visits is standard trick of those privacy-oriented analytics services (plausible.io, Simple Analytics). I also do it in my own counter script - https://tildegit.org/severak/millions/src/branch/master/mill...

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

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post #5

> 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?

A combination of timestamp and referrer becomes the "Unique" ID instead of IP or Cookie.

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

#20

Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)

Its a US company, you have to trust them on their words no logs are being shared with NSA etc. Also seems cloudflare is becoming one of the bigger nodes that if cloudflare does go down. It might shut down big sections of the internet.
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