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Am I missing something? To me, analytics & privacy sound like a contradiction
by max_ 6y ago
Am I missing something?
To me, analytics & privacy sound like a contradiction
- XCSme 6y agoIt is better privacy. There's one thing for one entity to know what everyone is doing on the web, all the websites that you visit and what you do on them, and another thing for an entity to know that you visited their own website, without knowing what other websites you visit and what you do on them. LE: The best solution is still self-hosting, as hosted plausible is still a 3rd party entity that centralizes data (even though they probably don't use or share this data).
- gdsdfe 6y agobut ... the website that I'm visiting have no incentive in caring about my privacy, I mean yes they should but what's in it for them ? I think this go to market approach of "we are better because google is evil" is just flawed.
- XCSme 6y agoThey do care, the data can be collected anonymously, without being linked directly to your person. They can use such data to improve your experience, without affecting you personally in any way.
- lecarore 6y agoWell, I'm an indie Dev and I do care, I find advertising and cookie notices really annoyining and I can afford the 40 something euros a year it costs me. I don't need to track everything.
- kevincox 6y agoThis is far too simple of a view. - For the large part the concern is what is done with the data. - Data can be anonymized. (Although this is often hard to verify) - You can hide the data in the client. For example imagine you want to know how many users use feature X. You can send an analytics report with 90% chance of a random value, and 10% chance sending the true boolean. You can't tell if any specific user has used the feature (because most likely it is a random value) but you can get a pretty good estimate what portion of your users use the feature. My understanding is that Plausible is focused on the use an anonymization.