If you don’t want to use Google Analytics, respect your users’s privacy, while still getting feedback on visited articles, you can always self-host a first-part

If you don’t want to use Google Analytics, respect your users’s privacy, while still getting feedback on visited articles, you can always self-host a first-party Matomo instance. You can, for example, disable its tracking cookie, anonymize IPs, make it deactivate when seeing DNT requests, and it would still work fine. Session tracking would be much less accurate of course, but you didn't use that anyway, and even if you did, be grateful that tracking is still possible. Matomo is cheap to self-host and easy to maintain, via its Dockery setup. Cloudflare entering this space is cool, as it would save people from self-hosting stuff, further bringing cost down. But they are still a third-party that you, and your visitors, will have to trust. Did you know that Cloudflare sets a tracking cookie in every response, on every website, with no way to turn it off? After seeing that cookie, with no clear explanation to how it is used, my trust in them was shaken. Now they are getting into analytics, so I guess I now know why it's there. And therefore my worry as a user. You can block requests to Google Analytics, but blocking requests to Cloudflare essentially means blocking the Internet. Checkmate content blockers ;-) [0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-Understanding-the-Cloudflare-Cookies#12345682 https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-U...