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One of those happy customers here -- I've always shied away from having any analytics, because my websites typically set no cookies and make no third-party requ
by andrewaylett 5y ago
One of those happy customers here -- I've always shied away from having any analytics, because my websites typically set no cookies and make no third-party requests. I'd prefer to be privacy-preserving than to see how little traffic my site gets.
Now with Plausible I still have no cookies or third-party requests on my websites, but I get to see numbers too.
- XCSme 5y ago> No third-party requests on my websites I assume you are using the self-hosted version?
- hootbootscoot 5y agoor proxying https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction
- XCSme 5y agoBut this still sends third-party requests, only that from your server, not the user. This is not a privacy-friendly technique, but the opposite of it.
- andrewaylett 5y agoMy take is that there are two factors at play here: * Third party requests from the browser are problematic in general for technical and privacy reasons: it's impossible for the browser to know whether the request is privacy-preserving or not. And they need to be enabled in tooling like CSP. It's much easier not to have any. * Third-party requests from my server don't give me any more information than I had before. I could store my logs and process them, or I can engage a third-party to aggregate my data for me. Plausible have no way to know that the requests I'm sending aren't entirely fictitious, and I can sleep slightly more soundly knowing that there's one less moving part that I need to maintain myself.