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Hey markosaric! Very interesting product and I'm really tempted to try it out. One suggestion to add to your documentation: you should mention drawbacks in your
by baobabKoodaa 6y ago
Hey markosaric! Very interesting product and I'm really tempted to try it out. One suggestion to add to your documentation: you should mention drawbacks in your "comparison" pages.
For example, the page where you compare Plausible to Google Analytics lists only advantages and doesn't indicate that Plausible could in any way be worse. But based on the description of how Plausible works, I'm fairly certain that people behind VPNs will not be properly counted (everyone with the same user-agent will be counted as if they were the same person). Use of VPNs is fairly widespread, so lack of fingerprinting will actually prevent you from accurately assessing how many visitors a site has.
- markosaric 6y agoThanks! Depends really on the perspective you look at it from. That post is from the visitor privacy / privacy regulations perspective. If you use GA full on, you will get some advantages such as storing cookies on devices but if you either make GA "privacy friendly" (enable IP anonymization, disable user-ID, disable cookies etc) or ask visitors to consent to being tracked you will get less accurate numbers than our method. We haven't noticed any issues with VPN usage as still you need people to use the same IP, same user agent and visit the same domain all on the same day to be counted as one with us.