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After a recent story on HN about all the horrible tracking Disqus started to do after being acquired by an ad-tech company, I ditched it and Google Analytics on my semi-dormant personal website. The process of fixing it got me interested in working on my site again and I ended up upstreaming the patches into the Hugo theme I use[1], so now everyone with that theme can benefit easily. I ended up using GoatCounter[2] after examining several alternatives in the market, predominantly because it was free for personal sites, but also because it was very no-frills which is all I really needed.
I don't think there's anything wrong with having basic site analytics, but I appreciate that there are now alternatives to Google Analytics that don't try to do the pervasive tracking that's become commonplace online.
[1]: https://tristor.ro/blog/2021/02/05/ditching-google-analytics...
[2]: https://www.goatcounter.com/
I'm the co-founder of https://pirsch.io/. We plan to add features for marketeers, but it's hard to be privacy-friendly/GDPR compliant and support that at the same time. We can talk about it if you like, just drop me an email: [email protected]
I've heard good things about goatcounter. https://umami.is/ is another popular alternative to Google Analytics that I happen to use. I've been happy with it.
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.
I have been using this for a while, GoAccess is a wonderful little tool to automate the parsing. Highly recommend to those who prefer the old-school approach towards web analytics.
https://goaccess.io/
I use Matomo, it runs on my home server, its open-source. Pretty sure you could run it on a Pi. There's a docker container that you can spin up in a few minutes.
https://matomo.org/
When I started https://www.oilshell.org/ I added Google Analytics because it was easy, and because it was something I'd seen a lot of other people do.
Then I actually used the web interface and it was useless for tracking what actually happens.
So I switched it off and haven't missed it at all. Instead I simply analyze my own logs with a Python program.
I was lazy about this and should have done it much earlier, so I encourage others to do the same.
It should also save energy because your user's phone doesn't have to make a connection to another server. The original hit to http://www.oilshell.org/ has all that's necessary for logging. (no cookies in my case, but there could be)
Google analytics were so prevalent that the NSA used the cookies to track (or attempt to track) entire the entire population:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10...
On a tangent, but related IMO: the whole WWW seems gross now.
The other day on that Mold linker project:
> I wanted to use the linker to link a Chromium executable with full debug info (~2 GiB in size) just in 1 second. LLVM's lld, the fastest open-source linker which I originally created a few years ago, takes about 12 seconds to link Chromium on my machine.
As much as I like that linker project, I can't help but feel it's like a pothead buying a bigger pipe: you're just going to smoke more weed.
How can it make sense in a sane world for a web browser to take up more space than entire operating systems? Red ( https://www.red-lang.org/ ) and Factor ( https://factorcode.org/ ) among many others deliver comparable capabilities in ~1M.
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The Gemini project is one interesting alternative. Every once in awhile I wonder what the folks using Urbit are up to in there.
But for the masses of unwashed users out there I think they're stuck with it. I feel like we are seeing the genesis of cyborg AIs with humans for neural nodes.
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A more complete list of things worth adding to /etc/hosts here (I'm not affiliated with this):
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
If one want to self-hosted, consider using https://ackee.electerious.com/
it looks very slick.
You can find here a huge list:
https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-analytics
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/blo...