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The EFF’s own website has analytics, somewhat ironically. But the information they collect is limited, and the analytics are loaded from a separate domain (anon
by surround 6y ago
The EFF’s own website has analytics, somewhat ironically. But the information they collect is limited, and the analytics are loaded from a separate domain (anon-stats.eff.org) so it’s easy to block. EFF’s privacy policy:
https://www.eff.org/policy https://www.eff.org/policy
I think that first-party analytics are kind of a gray area. Third-party analytics are always evil.
- lawik 6y agoIs it that clear-cut? Is a nice friendly org that considers the options and picks something minimal and ostensibly ethical like Fathom or Plausible and then just uses that to keep track of how they are doing evil? Or is that not a third party, just first-party outsourced? Not sure what definition we're working with here :)
- surround 6y agoI’m late to respond, but yes. Third party analytics allows a centralized entity to track your activity across multiple websites. No matter how privacy friendly Fathom and Plausible claim to be, I would rather not have to trust them. Self-hosted analytics takes this out of the question.