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> I think self-hosting is the solution. This way, there is no company that will store centralized user data, which is the biggest privacy issue for analytics. Your opinion will change in time. It all comes down to the principles of the company and who has control of it. That's why Fathom hasn't taken venture capital. As soon as you bring in people who don't share the same values as you, things start going downhill. Y…
I am slightly confused by your comment. Why do you say my opiniong will change in time? It has been the same over 8 years now and it just seems to get stronger and stronger. "You do not need to store centralized user data to run a sustainable competitor to Google Analytics." That was exactly my point, right? Any platform that is hosted stores centralized user data (as they control all the servers), so self-hosting is…
> Fathom, SimpleAnalytics.com, Plausible.io, Matomo.org, GoatCounter.com, and (shameless plug but WIP) Chiffre.io
and you said :
> I think self-hosting is the solution. This way, there is no company that will store centralized user data, which is the biggest privacy issue for analytics.".
Your premise was that these companies store centralized user data. That is absolutely not true. So you presented a fake problem (that doesn't exist amongst privacy-focused analytics solutions) and gave a solution.