> While I appreciate its simplicity, private data on the internet is messier than it sounds, and almost impossible _not_ to collect it Yup 100% agree. One of t

> While I appreciate its simplicity, private data on the internet is messier than it sounds, and almost impossible _not_ to collect it Yup 100% agree. One of the reasons I do this is that I used to work in adtech (focusing mainly on privacy, which is a complete joke in that industry, but we all know that), so in most of my projects I try to use privacy-friendly alternatives. For instance, the Heroku requests will either use umami (without sessions/state) as well as stripping unnecessary headers/cookies from the payload from the network traffic (e.g. credentials: none). The code is available on GH. I still want to know what's happening on my site, e.g. UX-wise, so I can fix and adjust stuff. But, so far I've never needed to know "who" is visiting vs. what are the general interactions with the content. Just like oil/CO2 emissions, user data should be considered a burden, not an infinite resource. Even if your expectations of adtech are already low, I can assure you that some of the shit I've heard considered acceptable is just mind-boggling, and scary.