Fingerprinting across the web is bad because you can use it to target a specific user, but if a company that has a website tracks locally all this data (self-hosted), then they are only able to tell if a user is a returning user or not without being able to share "this user" with any other platform or 3rd party.

Re: Can I run analytics without defacing my website with annoying consent banners?

Post by fjsousa » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 9:41 AM UTC

ldng wrote: post #2

Yes. Server-side with good old-fashion log analyzer.

not sure that will fly with the marketing team

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