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Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by jenadine »

johndhi wrote: post #71

I'm not an engineer. Can someone please specifically explain to me how this protects data and privacy more than Google? Does it use cookies and browser storage?

One thing is that it doesn't send any data about your users to Google.

Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by 6ak74rfy »

jmduke wrote: post #63

A while back I built out a quick guide comparing all of these alternatives, because the core value prop was pretty similar and it was annoying to compare between pricing plans. (My personal vote goes to Fathom.) https://buttondown.email/comparison-guides/google-analytics-...

Last I checked, Fathom’s open source product hadn’t been updated for a couple of years. So, I switched to Plausible which is more reasonably updated.

Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by dfsl »

I have integrated my site with matomo.

The matomo analytics are captured and stored on-premises on my server (nothing goes to the cloud).

Performance is good with my configuration. You can see page performance for yourself by loading this page: https://freesoftware.life/how-to-install-kubuntu-23-04/

Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by iLoveOncall »

hobo_mark wrote: post #9
iLoveOncall wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Half of the "alternatives" there are dead (website is offline) and the rest is not free. Those are hardly alternatives, more like band-aid solutions.

I'm going through the list at random (I'm on the market for such a service) and none of them appear offline so far.

Yeah you're right actually. From my phone most of them appeared online but from my computer, on the same network, they're all fine.

Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by EGreg »

jhpacker wrote: post #58
EGreg wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t get it, how can they stop you from recording this on your own server? Are you talking about CNAME cloaking? Pretty sure Apple only cares if one specific server gets all the CNAMEs. It doesn’t block CNAMEs in general.

ITP now also degrades first party server-set cookies to 7 days where the first part of the IPs don't match. So if you're using CNAMEs for your measurement and the you have a.a.x.x and b.b.x.x it will downgrade.

Link?

Re: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

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Post by skilled »

jmduke wrote: post #63

A while back I built out a quick guide comparing all of these alternatives, because the core value prop was pretty similar and it was annoying to compare between pricing plans. (My personal vote goes to Fathom.) https://buttondown.email/comparison-guides/google-analytics-...

Fathom is run by some goofy marketer who has openly slandered (on HN) other analytics products in this space. Sadly, can’t support anyone who does that. They’re not open-source either.

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Post by berkle4455 »

jmduke wrote: post #63

A while back I built out a quick guide comparing all of these alternatives, because the core value prop was pretty similar and it was annoying to compare between pricing plans. (My personal vote goes to Fathom.) https://buttondown.email/comparison-guides/google-analytics-...

Stay far away from fathom. Bro culture bullshit at the worst. Don’t believe a word they say.
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