I think it would be useful to differentiate between “user trackers” and something like a “site tracker”. A “user tracker” sets cookies and follows a user aroun

I think it would be useful to differentiate between “user trackers” and something like a “site tracker”. A “user tracker” sets cookies and follows a user around, knowing what the user have or have not done before. A “site tracker” (bad wording I know) follows what happens to a site, what device types accesses it etc. Sure, making direct requests to the analytics servers exposes IP and possibility to somewhat track the user. Tracking based on IP is pretty inefficient though, due to shared IP-addresses, IP-address changes when jumping between networks, VPN:s. Ideally SimpleAnalytics would provide a tiny proxy/washing script that one can host on ones own server and which one includes on ones site rather than including it directly from SimpleAnalytics servers. That way one can guarantee ones users that no IP-address is leaked to a third party (which would also make a Data Processing Agreement completely unnecessary from a GDPR perspective)