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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 #24

Can you have multiple trackers set up? I get the same tracking code for each domain I try every time I set it up, which isn't great for keeping relations between websites private. The token makes it seem like it's per-user rather than a general one everyone gets.

(PM for Cloudflare Analytics here.)

At launch, we just support one token per account. We are already working on supporting multiple analytics tokens in one account though!

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

#32

Privacy-first analytics is a contradiction in terms. Do not spy on people. Do not build software that spies on people. It's that easy. This project is despicable, and this company is despicable.

What is despicable about an analytics product that doesn't track people?

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

#33

Privacy-first analytics is a contradiction in terms. Do not spy on people. Do not build software that spies on people. It's that easy. This project is despicable, and this company is despicable.

What is despicable about an analytics product that doesn't track people?

"An analytics product that doesn't track people" is nonsensical. It's like "water that isn't wet".

Importantly, real trust on the internet is built on math and logic, not on faith. And faith, in this case, in a corporate institution which has spent years expending its fullest effort to direct as much of the flow of internet traffic through its servers as possible. I am never going to take you at your word that you won't write any of this data down, I promise, for real, no subpoenas or subversion going on here, no sir!

And yes, I know who you are, and that it's no use convincing you that the company that you built is a net evil on this world.

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

#34
post #25

Is it really free? In my cloudflare dashboard it shows 'Upgrade to Pro' in 'analytics' tab.

Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics

Thank you for providing a great service. Hosting on the web was super stressful in the past, with having to worry about script kiddies disagreeing with you and causing your bandwidth bill to soar.

Small issue; when clicking the link you provided I just get redirected to my accounts dashboard.

Edit: There was a link to web analytics in the right pane, and that worked for me

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

#35
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?

I would assume a direct access with no referrer is also considered a "visit". I think the main point here is subsequent clicks around the site with the referrer from the current site do not increment the "visit" counter.

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

#36
post #25

Is it really free? In my cloudflare dashboard it shows 'Upgrade to Pro' in 'analytics' tab.

Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics

Is this not available in the EU? I get forwarded to my dashboard page.

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

#37
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics

Is this not available in the EU? I get forwarded to my dashboard page.

Click the link in the right pane

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

#38
post #26

As much as I applaud every alternative to Google services, I would think about these kind of analytics twice when running any kind of developer-centric service. Chance is that your target audience is running an adblocker / DNS blocker of some sort and that this will heavily skew the analytics results: The absolute numbers will be a lot lower and you will only capture folks not savvy enough for adblockers. I removed a…

If you're interested in how many visitors are using an adblocker you can use Admiral's [1] free analytics on your site.

[1] https://getadmiral.com

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Admiral)

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

#39
post #25

Is it really free? In my cloudflare dashboard it shows 'Upgrade to Pro' in 'analytics' tab.

Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics

It’s currently broken. I have a free account and wanted to have a look at it. First it didn’t show at all in my dashboard, after a while it showed up, and I was able to complete onboarding and look at the (empty) results page. When I then refreshed it, I got 404 and now the web analytics button is gone again.

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

#40
post #26

As much as I applaud every alternative to Google services, I would think about these kind of analytics twice when running any kind of developer-centric service. Chance is that your target audience is running an adblocker / DNS blocker of some sort and that this will heavily skew the analytics results: The absolute numbers will be a lot lower and you will only capture folks not savvy enough for adblockers. I removed a…

If you're interested in how many visitors are using an adblocker you can use Admiral's [1] free analytics on your site. [1] https://getadmiral.com (Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Admiral)

Boy, is your company's product nicely done but annoying! :)

Any plans to make the "continue without disabling" button harder to click in the future?

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