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Shynet

Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. (by milesmcc)

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protofact		Shynet
	Project
1	Mentions	21
1	Stars	2,806
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.1
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
Go	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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protofact

Posts with mentions or reviews of protofact. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-16.

Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021

At my last company we had a gRPC pipeline using Uber’s prototool that generated code but it was still a pain to get that code into projects so I wrote https://github.com/gospotcheck/protofact to package up the code into Gems and Jars, etc, for installation and publish them to a repository like Artifactory or any other. There wasn’t an existing solution I could find.
Also convinced the company to make it the first and only OSS project there.

Shynet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shynet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.

Shynet: Modern, privacy-friendly, web analytics, without cookies or JavaScript
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023
It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023

+1 on shynet! I use it for my personal website and my blog, and it's been working great.
I got it up and running with Podman, so no need to install and run the Docker daemon. I also fixed SQLite support [1], so no need for an additional DB server.
I analyzed available open-source web analytics tools [2] and AFAIK there is simpler solution for web analytics that doesn't involve a third party.
[1] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet/issues/208
[2] https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/privacy-respecting-self...
Recommendations for self-hosted Google Analytics alternatives?
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Jun 2023

I like shynet
Ask HN: Any alternatives to Google Analytics that don't require cookies?
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023

I am using shynet for a while now. Really all I need to know :)
https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
Why you should remove Google Analytics from your website
3 projects | /r/degoogle | 7 Jul 2022

There's also Shynet.
Show HN: Sudopad – Private link sharing board for friends
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2022

Oh that is actually shynet self hosted analytics which is privacy friendly. https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
But I think I'll just remove it for now.
Please name some open source projects which are collecting small user analytics metrics and how
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 31 Mar 2022
Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU.
1 project | /r/opensource | 20 Jan 2022

6 projects | /r/programming | 19 Jan 2022
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2022

Shynet: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
The goal is to provide, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. And it's completely open source.
Full disclosure: I am the primary maintainer.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing protofact and Shynet you can also consider the following projects:

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

sqldb-logger - A logger for Go SQL database driver without modifying existing *sql.DB stdlib usage.

Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

tera - A template engine for Rust based on Jinja2/Django

Open Web Analytics - Official repository for Open Web Analytics which is an open source alternative to commercial tools such as Google Analytics. Stay in control of the data you collect about the use of your website or app. Please consider sponsoring this project.

GoJS, a JavaScript Library for HTML Diagrams - JavaScript diagramming library for interactive flowcharts, org charts, design tools, planning tools, visual languages.

flask-profiler - a flask profiler which watches endpoint calls and tries to make some analysis.

fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries

Matomo - Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!

gazpacho - 🥫 The simple, fast, and modern web scraping library

GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.