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Serious question. Say I have a site and I want to track users. Do I have to just do this via my own HTTP logs now if I want this working with Firefox? I mean

Serious question. Say I have a site and I want to track users. Do I have to just do this via my own HTTP logs now if I want this working with Firefox? I mean this is how it was done in the bad old days. I have no nefarious intent. I just need to figure out what features my users are using so I can fix them if they're broken. It would be nice to possibly get some sort of explicit opt-in from Firefox. I guess one workaround I could have is to call the analytics APIs on my server directly... Talking to our users their main complaint isn't necessarily that I'm tracking them more that the data is going to Google so maybe the solution is to run mixpanel.

wccrawford 7y ago
Yeah, I'd say you have to implement your own tracking system instead of using an off-the-shelf one. Either from your logs, or from code that you write, server- or client-side.
parliament32 7y ago
Users have never cared that your site tracks them -- it's pretty well known that every web server ever logs pretty much everything. The problem is with third party tracking: I'm happy that you know what I'm doing on your site, but I'm not interested in you shipping that data to Google, who will then sell it to a few dozen advertisers, who then combine it with other sites' data and build some sort of profile against me.
saagarjha 7y ago
> I just need to figure out what features my users are using so I can fix them if they're broken. Is there a way you can do this without collecting any data, or making it opt-in?