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I truly cannot understand how such a non-profit website could implement Google analytics, which tracks the users. Any desire to sign the petitions disappears.

• phpwn 9y ago
  The article describes Change.org as "a for-profit petition and fundraising website..."
• electricEmu 9y ago
  That's a pretty entitled viewpoint. Block it, politically organize, or develop a better product that costs less in time. A non-profit might be wasting money if they're trying to get piwik analytics working. Time isn't free.
• teej 9y ago
  I don't think it's worth tossing out such a statement without at least some justification of the tradeoffs and costs. Do you think it is a smart deployment of capital and mindshare to spend money for server costs, eng implementation time, and devops time to maintain and scale piwik? Do you think piwik will realistically work on a website with 180 million users and growing? From what I can tell, Change.org would be one of the largest piwik installations on the internet. Their site mentions they "know of several websites with 100 million pageviews per month". If not piwik, is there something else?
  • 3131s 9y ago
    How about no analytics at all?! It's weird that GP is downvoted for suggesting that Google should not be given a free pass to spy on a site that contains sensitive information about people's political opinions.
    • teej 9y ago
      You cannot run a massive, scalable website without analytics the same way you cannot run massive, scalable infrastructure without monitoring. It's like driving with your eyes closed. This discussion got me thinking about releasing my own open source replacement for Google Analytics and how I would achieve that. Seems like such an interesting challenge.