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By adding a shit-ton of tracking and analytic code from 3rd parties that provide some convenience. Blog owners are worried because it's not always clear what ha
by mikejb 8y ago
By adding a shit-ton of tracking and analytic code from 3rd parties that provide some convenience. Blog owners are worried because it's not always clear what happens through the imported 3rd-party code, and now they have to start caring about that.
- pmlnr 8y agoThere's Matomo[^1] and ancient tools like awstats[^2] which are self-hosted and can be configured to be completely GDPR friendly. I thought the "need" for silly amount of analytics died with 3rd party website visitor counters back in the days. [^1]: https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/ [^2]: http://www.awstats.org/ http://www.awstats.org/
- yellowapple 8y agoThey should've been caring about that from the start. If GDPR is what it takes to get bloggers to think twice about embedding Like buttons and analytics/trackers up the wazoo, then I for one welcome our new European overlords.