It is really easy to protect everyone's privacy by not using advanced analytics platforms at all.
Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy
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#22Beware, Matomo by default isn't very privacy friendly, you will need the GDPR banner for any advanced features. If you want a GDPR compliant analytics you have to disable many of its flagship features, or use something else like Plausible, designed to work with no consent.
You need a GDPR banner for sharing information with third parties. Why would you need one for self-hosted Matomo?
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#23I'm using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible. Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad/tracking blocker. Doesn't matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems t…
You can usually rename the tracker to something that's not on the blocklist.
That used to work but current block filters analyse js variables and url parameters and are much harder to circumvent.
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#24Let's all just stop tracking all together. We don't need tracking at all and bloating up and slowing down websites.
This would be nice. I don't track users on my personal blog. I don't give a flying duck about what people do there.
However I make money from running a website which is really useful to a lot of people. I absolutely need to know what works and what doesn't. I can't write and edit in the dark, possibly missing by a mile what my readers really need. It would be like flying a plane without instruments.
For instance, I see that a lot of people use the search to find a single guide, which should definitely be linked on the home page. Without basic tracking, I wouldn't even know which pages are important to my users.
There are many gaping holes in your website that you could be completely blind to without a basic sense of what your users do on your website.
I also caught many illegal copies of my website through referrer tracking. Three of them were phishing websites, and I got them shut down.
So there are many legitimate reasons to have basic traffic counters, and you can have those while respecting your users' privacy and following the spirit and the letter of GDPR.
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#25Beware, Matomo by default isn't very privacy friendly, you will need the GDPR banner for any advanced features. If you want a GDPR compliant analytics you have to disable many of its flagship features, or use something else like Plausible, designed to work with no consent.
You need a GDPR banner for sharing information with third parties. Why would you need one for self-hosted Matomo?
Its not only that, its also about the data collected.
Real time data like visitor data and heatmaps aren't allowed, also IP tracking is not allowed too.
Because matomo can be very powerful, more powerful than Ganalytics.
You can let it assign a unique id to every visitor if it visited a subdomain and logged in, so you can now exactly who each visitor is on all of your sites.
https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/how-do-i-configure-matomo-with...
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#26I wish some of the privacy focused GA alternatives had SOC 2 reports, or ISO 27001. We’re working towards our first SOC 2, which makes it hard to incorporate anything without one into our product. On prem is a lot of work, and not something i want to approach lightly.
why? Having gone through a few SOC-2s, I don't see any value it other than it being a racket.
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#27Their usage of word "On-Premise" instead of "on prem" or "on premises"!!!
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#28I'm using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible. Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad/tracking blocker. Doesn't matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems t…
Why spend time undermining people's preferences?
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#29Beware, Matomo by default isn't very privacy friendly, you will need the GDPR banner for any advanced features. If you want a GDPR compliant analytics you have to disable many of its flagship features, or use something else like Plausible, designed to work with no consent.
You need a GDPR banner for sharing information with third parties. Why would you need one for self-hosted Matomo?
You'll need consent for any data collection not essential to your site's functionality, even if you host stuff yourself.
If all you so is collect how often your pages are being visited then you're not collecting any PII and you don't need a banner, but if you're tracking visitors based on unique identifiers (cookies, IP addresses, etc.) you'll need to get consent first.
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#30C'mon there's like a thousand threads on these already.
In all these threads, there is never a project manager from a large establishment telling
- Thanks. we will migrate - we did and it was
More or less everyone is after $.