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The fact that it's so low (yes imo 58 is pretty low) speaks volumes to the attitudes of the "tech-savvy crowd" towards tracking and data mining.
As a developer of an ad blocker[1] our stats would seem to back up what Plausible has found: - Despite having equivalent desktop (macOS) and mobile (iOS) apps, most of our users (> 75%) use the app primarily on desktop - Most users say the key reason for use is for privacy protection; even with Safari providing some inbuilt privacy tracking protection - Our app is focused on providing a simple 'set and forget' ad blo…
So what exactly does Plausible do to avoid being blocked in the same manner? What prevents GA from doing the same?
This is good to hear. I didn't think the percentages would be that high. "Data driven design" is kinda overrated anyway. It's better to actually listen to your users. Stats don't show what people think, and they're often tweaked to show what people want to see.
This is not to say the data is useless - it's just worth remembering that, unless you have strong statistical background, you're probably reading your data wrong, so your metrics should be treated as weak evidence at best.
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[0] - It's not snark, it's a corollary of the replication crisis. This is a hard job.
It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
Use Bromite, Vivaldi or Brave on Android. They have built-in ad tracker protection. The first two even support custom filtering lists. On iOS the options are a bit worse but Brave has some kind of adblocking that works. Safari also supports blocking lists via AdGuard but it's more limited.
One option would now be to host a plausible proxy on-premise. But I didn't have time to try that out yet.
PS: We're paying plausible customers and our stats are publicly accessible [2].
-1: https://rugpullindex.com/blog#HowPlausibleareOurWebsiteAnaly...
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What GP describes would be stronger than AdNauseum. Instead of sending clicks indiscriminately for every ad, you would send clicks for high quality content.
That'd just end up costing the high quality content providers money. Ads wouldn't just get cheaper for them. On the contrary, clicking only on trash, and having the high quality content have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio would have the desired effect. Maybe.
But, hey this isn't a gameplan, this was just a "what if" :D
Similarly, wrapping websites like Discord or Slack in Electron also gives the website owners full telemetry and tracking that they can't get in a tech savvy browser.
Would an always on VPN, a remote pihole be the only way for privacy?