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Matomo can also be used to analyze server logs.
19USD/mo for 3 sites seems pretty steep, and I have 0 interest in managing my own PHP service. Is there anything cheaper in this space?
I see a lot of suggestions for free or open-source analytics packages, but I would refrain from recommending anything you haven't personally used. I've tried to separate myself from Google in various ways, and one of those was to replace Google Analytics with open source software. I tried several; they're all either non-functional out of the box, or require significant time investment to even start approaching Google…
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I'd say the following to this (very reasonable) argument against using AWS: AWS makes money by selling services, not collecting data. Should Amazon make the leap and start harvesting data from AWS for marketing purposes, the data from their analytics platform will be the least of our worries. Thus far, AWS has proven to be safe for companies to host their data upon, and there have been no leaks of data stored in AWS…
Or is that wishful thinking? AWS and Amazon are in the buisness of collecting, storing, and processing data.
This is why this comparison doesn't make sense. Google Analytics is a 3rd party service where you have no control at all of your data. You put a script of your app, and then you basically funnel data to them. That's it.
Using Pinpoint, in this case, is the equivalent of using EC2 and S3. You can control the flow and the lifecycle of data (deleting data forever, for example).
You should be able to trust that your customer data is safe there, otherwise, why use AWS at all? or better yet, why use any public cloud infrastructure provider at all?
If you're concerned about that, you probably should build your own self-managed server infrastructure.
It would be handy if people listed here all the alternatives that don't steal your customer info.
https://usefathom.com/ https://goaccess.io/ https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy http://matomo.org/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://count.ly/
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This really reminds me of the infamous "you can just use FTP instead of Dropbox" comment.
Could you link me to the FTP vs. Dropbox discussion? I am curious. I haven't used either for years and the implication seems to be that there is a profound difference, so I wonder what it is.
I have created a simple workflow using AWS Lambda + Kinesis + S3 to track our customers and not to have any 3rd party dependency. It took roughly 2 weeks but it is worth it since do not leak customer data and we have much tighter control over what we collect (no PII except the source ip that gets hashed in the process).
> I have created a simple workflow using AWS Lambda + Kinesis + S3 to track our customers and not to have any 3rd party dependency. Except for each of the 3 components you listed that make up your system. They are 3rd party dependencies,
I think OP was clearly referring to a self-managed solution as opposed to a set of 3rd party services like GA, Segment, etc, where the flow of data is out for your control.
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If you think you can replicate that with 10 lines you have no idea what Google Analytics is used for.
I'm ashamed to admit that I use GA on my blog to essentially count page views. The other information is interesting but mostly unused (by me). I would be far better served by a tool or service handling server logs (any recommendations?). But GA is 0 friction, so it's what I picked up back in the day. I suspect there are a lot of people in this boat.
Of course, if that is all you are doing, you should be using Matamo or Fathom or whatever, but it is not fair to say GA could easily be replaced.
It would be handy if people listed here all the alternatives that don't steal your customer info.
https://usefathom.com/ https://goaccess.io/ https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy http://matomo.org/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://count.ly/
- Goatcounter also came up a few days ago on HN and got a lot of traction/discussion[1]
I can't find the comment it was posted in, but a HN user did a good comparison of a few privacy-focused analytics tools[2]
[0] https://simpleanalytics.com/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854
[2] https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focu...
Edit: I found the OG comment for the blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544
So the solution is to use Amazon's tracker? I appreciate the problem and I would like to stop using GA in my static pages as well, but trading one privately-owned software from a tech giant for another privately-owned software from a different tech giant seems a bit ludicrous. I would readily swap GA for some decent open-source solution though.
More to the point: there is probably going to be a bias in the analytics. Different people have different reasons for protecting themselves against tracking, but it is highly unlikely that people who are unaware of or disinterested in the issue will use a blocker.