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We ditched Google Analytics

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Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#22

An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me. Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?

Self hosted analytics is still centralizing behavioral data on the users. It's not really any better from a privacy standpoint than GA.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#24
post #20

I'm doing my part. I'm moving to DuckDuckGo for searching more and more. It's a process. Google does have better results. For work I still rely on Google, for private stuff I use https://duckduckgo.com/ And for the sake of ducks, I'm eating less meat as well. No more chicken - too much antibiotics, and as little meat as possible, only when it's worth it, so great taste and good quality.

You can also try https://search.disconnect.me.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#25

An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me. Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?

Self hosted analytics is still centralizing behavioral data on the users. It's not really any better from a privacy standpoint than GA.

Its nowhere near as centralized as Google Analytics though - at least if you're self hosting that data is confined to the silo which is your own analytics, rather than Google being able to aggregate that with their behaviour on every other site they visit as well.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#29

    It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew 
    analytics package. Nothing super fancy yet now we have 
    an internal dashboard that shows the entire company much
    of what we used analytics for anyway - and with some 
    nice integration with some of our other systems too.
I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion.

And to echo other posters: SpiderOak deserve thanks. If I find myself with any need for a service like theirs, I know I'll be looking at them.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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post #23

Kudos for this!! it's interesting that still there's meta, probably leftover EDIT: wow, thanks for your answers guys!! so nice to see Cunningham's law in action ;)

That's for Google's webmaster tools, which is another service Google offers (although in this case, you get to peer into their data)
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