archive_privera VS Umami

The Uni Oslo IP Proxy does not seem production-ready. It relies on the Google Analytics script being loaded from Google servers, and only handles IPv4. It does not seem to consider anonymization of further categories of data that is also collected by GA. I've previously had some discussions on this subreddit with the developer of Privera which clearly does achieve strong pseudonymization, though some implementation choices are of dubious value and I wouldn't recommend it for production use either.

A couple of months ago there was a discussion here about Privera, a similar anonymization proxy. It contains a database of common user agent regexes that allow it to strip out unnecessary details. But I'm not sure where Privera got this database from, so licensing is unclear.

https://privera.io/ which is actually 100% free under 10k events. It works as an anonymizing proxy between you and GA, which is not perfect as it's still Google, but it seems like a fair tradeoff. It seems like a very little project though, do anyone of you have heard about it ?

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With regards to this very subject, we have open-sourced a new kind of approach. In a nutshell, you can continue using tools like Google Analytics (without breaking them) but do not need any cookies. You do not need cookie consents anymore (as long as you do not intend to send any further PII to GA).

Another open source alternative similar to Plausible is https://umami.is/

Are you tired of relying solely on Google Analytics to track your website's performance? Look no further! Introducing Umami , a powerful and privacy-focused alternative that puts you in control of your analytics data. Umami was founded by three brothers, Mike, Brian and Francis Cao as they were frustarted with using Google Analytics, which dominated and still does the industry of analytics despite of privacy concerns. As it is open-source, Umami quickly started being popular open-source project while still respecting privacy of users. My personal opinion, is that Umami is really easy to setup and use, for smaller projects as my personal website it is of great use. It does not many tracking as GA but it really does its job.

Link | Demo | Github | License

For a while now, I've been creating mini web tools to test out ideas or as tiny helpers for myself. I usually publish them on individual subdomains, which might not be the best idea, but I like the concept of a short, easy-to-remember URL. Recently, I discovered that some of these tools actually have a few users, which made me consider adding analytics to them. After a bit of research, I settled on umami. It's a great little privacy-conscious tool with exactly what I need and nothing more.

If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1]

If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea.

Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version.

Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while.

1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics

2. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

3. https://umami.is

4. https://www.pikapods.com

not enough, can confirm, I moved to Umami for ChadNext

Think of metrics that will gather good insights for creating more things for the product later and track them using analytics services like umami or others.

Analytics is something that can easily become a privacy headache. To get around the issues as much as possible, the strategy I've implemented is to self-host the analytics tool Umami (again, via the One click app functionality in CapRover!).

This question is targeted to those who have experience with Umami. I’m wondering if it make sense with a specific configuration.