I use a self-hosted instance of Plausible Analytics. It's privacy-respecting and the analytics data is only available the site operators, not shared to any big corp to optimize the monetization effort. And as a bonus, it's not blocked by any ad blocker so the data is more accurate.
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I found this article of theirs to be shamelessly plugging: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-illegal
And even though they might be good, knowing the internet today, I find myself incapable of trusting them... anything that starts off in ad-format makes me icky and unsure. It could be the best tool in the world, but I hate pitches.
PS: Yes, I know I am linking to their pitch, but I'm not the kind to hide links. Better have them all out to discuss than tucked away.
The key point is you can self-host it and the source is open. If PA getting shitty in the future, you can just keep your instance in the last known good version, or even use a forked version if someone decided to fork.
In fairness, as a service, they were basically just handed a golden ticket.
True, and they are making lemonade for sure.
But again, my issue is with sleezy advertisement for a 'profitable open source' product.
I came here to post this, glad to see this is already here.
Not only Sweden, but the other Nordics have done the same. One thing that bothers me is the clear lack of a proper alternative. On the other hand, I couldn't give two shits about Google and any of its products. So now Google Analytics is going to lose out in this market, and for what? So many companies will now go into panic mode to migrate away from GA.
We migrated to Matomo, which has very similar functionality as GA, but can be self hosted and is GDPR compatible. It can even be configured to run without consent since it doesn’t build a third party ad profile, which should actually improve the data coverage a bit.
The tracking API is a little different than GA so we had to redo some things to get all the events to trigger properly (especially for e-commerce), but for basic usage statistics it’s relatively plug and play in the tag manager.
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