nullitics VS privacy-budget

I am now looking at https://nullitics.com (https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics) to jump away from Google Analytics, and quite like it. For self-hosted option I would probably use GoAccess. In general, I like the trend that more and more alternatives appear, competition is never a bad thing.

I am currently working on exactly this! I have always been dreaming of a low-cost, zero-effort web analytics.

So far I have made an open source library/service, I've been using it for my blog and a few other sites for over two months. It is available at https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics.

For the cloud version I decided to go with 1€/month, and I have often been criticised for choosing such a low price. However, I belive that I would rather be at a lower profit, but help bloggers, hackers and other who want such a tool.

You can't block fingerprinting completely without breaking a ton of useful features. But the sandbox has a concept called the privacy budget which tries to determine if a site is collecting too much information. It should allow sites that actually use some of these features to continue to work.

The idea is that if sites that query fonts, engage canvas, read the user agent information, etc, they are likely trying to build a fingerprint, so the browser will start to return generic data.

Presumably - hopefully - it would allow users to set their own privacy budgets. Even better if it supports granular per-site control, which may be needed to certain specialized websites.

https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget

I don't think there are any plans to make this a pop-up. But it's still useful to move this entropy to be something that has to be actively collected: people can see which sites are collecting what information, and eventually browsers can start enforcing something like privacy budgets (https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget). You can't do these with something always sent automatically.

Someone from Chrome has proposed something similar in the form of a "privacy budget". Each fingerprintable surface gets a score and each origin has a budget. Once you go over, something(?) happens.

https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget

https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget