Is 'privacy-friendly analytics tools' an oxymoron?

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  • Fathom Analytics

    Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

  • If you don't mind a paid solution, you can check out Fathom, it is a privacy-first solution. Alternatively you can try Matomo, which is self-hosted and open source.

  • 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!

  • If you don't mind a paid solution, you can check out Fathom, it is a privacy-first solution. Alternatively you can try Matomo, which is self-hosted and open source.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • GoAccess

    GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

  • This answer might be outdated but I have used http://goaccess.io/ in the past with great success.

  • Umami

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

  • You can have a look at https://umami.is - only caveat is that you need to host it yourself. But a droplet at Digitalocean is $5 so you should be fine.

  • Plausible Analytics

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

  • Lots of smallish players in the space, Ive used Plausible and Simple Analytics.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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