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We've tried extremely hard to ensure that Google cannot tie this information to other information. It uses a randomly generated UUID that you can change at any
by mikemcquaid 10y ago
We've tried extremely hard to ensure that Google cannot tie this information to other information. It uses a randomly generated UUID that you can change at any time and we request IPs be anonymised using the documented method (and I see no evidence that Google lies about this). When there's an alternative that is provided to us for free, can handle our load and stores similar or less personal information to Google Analytics we'll consider it. So far there's been a few offers of help but none of them have met those requirements.
- throwanem 10y agoDo you guys have a general concept of monthly cost for e.g. DigitalOcean or similar, just to handle the hosting and bandwidth for a Piwik backend or something similarly not Google? At your scale I'm sure it is well beyond anything I could afford to subsidize given my present responsibilities, but this might possibly be an easier conversation to have in general were it more widely known what kind of costs we're talking about here - I get the impression that part of the GA-related upset may just have to do with the fact that people don't really understand the magnitude of the problem under discussion. (Or I hope so, anyway.)
- username223 10y agoGoogle's business is tying information to other information in ways people don't expect, so your "trying very hard" seems likely to fail. Plus, it seems like you're not trying very hard: > It uses a randomly generated UUID that you can change at any time and we request IPs be anonymised using the documented method... You already have a UUID. Why give Google the IP at all? Of course, I don't understand your desperate need for "analytics" unless it's a need for approval. Why can't you take all the blog posts talking about "brew" as approval enough?