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> To avoid giving website analytics market leader Google data about every visitor to his website, Butler said Protonmail built proprietary analytics software. M
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
> To avoid giving website analytics market leader Google data about every visitor to his website, Butler said Protonmail built proprietary analytics software. Most websites can set up Google Analytics in an hour, he said, but ProtonMail’s system took years to build, cost half a million dollars in server hardware costs alone and requires a permanent full-time staff to continue to maintain it.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell privacy-respecting analytics software ?
- oarsinsync 6y agoI believe https://simpleanalytics.com https://simpleanalytics.com is one such privacy-respecting analytics package. No relation to the organisation, I've just seen them talk on this forum a lot.
- markosaric 6y agoThere are some already. I'm working on Plausible Analytics. Modern dashboard, simple metrics to understand, open source, can be self-hosted, lightweight script (<1 KB), no cookies and doesn't collect personal data https://plausible.io/ https://plausible.io/
- agustif 6y agoYou also have piwik and matomo to throw into that market. It kinda looks saturated already to me but I'm sure there's plenty of room for smaller players!
- GekkePrutser 6y agoMakes you wonder: why does protonmail need so many statistics and why it's it so valuable to them to spend millions on?
- chris_f 6y agoIn addition to already mentioned Plausible Analytics and Simple Analytics, there is also Fathom Analytics. Cloudflare also just announced yesterday a "privacy-first" focused analytics offering. https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for-a-better-web/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for...