Congratulations on getting your subtle advertising on the front page. I admire your restraint in only mentioning your product at the conclusion of a long articl

Congratulations on getting your subtle advertising on the front page. I admire your restraint in only mentioning your product at the conclusion of a long article - nicely done! That said, you state what many have been been saying for years - GA is overkill for most sites and gives a stupid amount of information to Google. But sites are giving up their users information to any 3rd party analytics package, not just GA. Hosting your own analytics is the only ethical way to go, unless you really, really need the demographic data that GA provides (which you probably don't). Having passive feedback that people are actually reading your posts is nice but a simple hit-counter would probably do the job and relieve your readers of losing another little slice of their privacy. I'm going to take a leaf out of the poster's book and mention my own project in passing: https://sheep.horse/visitor_statistics.html https://sheep.horse/visitor_statistics.html