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• Matomo

  148 19,078 9.8 PHP

  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!

  

Is anyone here familiar with Matomo? I noticed the linked page attempts to run it because Ghostery blocked it.

It's a “Free software alternative to Google Analytics” “which can easily be configured to respect your visitors' privacy”[0] (emphasis mine). But can it be configured in a way so you can claim “without any tracking code”? I wonder whether the claim in the headline was supposed to be merely “no third-party tracking”.

Or maybe I'm supposed to know that “no tracking” is jargon for something like ”attempts to not store PII” in this industry? I doubt that it can be configured such that, for example, unique visitors are statistically estimated instead of counting unique IDs from tracking cookies — but I'm too lazy to research that in detail, so it would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more.

[0] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,081 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

Is SoundCloud owned by google? I looked it up, but it didn't seem to be.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+owns+soundcloud&t=brave&ia=...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  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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