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> PostHog is the only open source product analytics platform where customer data never leaves your infrastructure That's wrong. I can give you 3 other open sou

> PostHog is the only open source product analytics platform where customer data never leaves your infrastructure That's wrong. I can give you 3 other open source selfhosted options off the top of my head: Offen, Counter, Matomo. Edit: I just saw that their "alternatives to google analytics" page shows posthog's competitors as well and you can submit prs to add further options, fair play! https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives

deepstack 5y ago
Got a 404 when going to the link.
- deleted 5y ago
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- schleck8 5y ago
  They might have changed it just now, or I copied the wrong one. Either way I replaced it with the correct url
- timgl 5y ago
  Sorry! Had to rename it because of issues with uBlock ironically [0]. New URL is https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives/ https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives/ [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994768
kingcharles 5y ago
"Plausible" is another, even if I don't like their support.
- Volker_W 5y ago
  Why don't you like plausible?
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Just that their support rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to use their commercial offering but it had a bug which stopped my site returning any telemetry. They basically refused to do anything about it, and that was a big red flag. With Javascript analytics you need to know that it is returning for 100% of compatible clients with JS enabled, otherwise you are missing valuable metrics. Google Analytics worked fine on my site. Plausible's script causes a script error which killed it dead. It's only a bug in their commercial system. I spent hours debugging it myself and found the bug in their system. Seeing as it's a bug only in their commercial offering (not their open source one) I said "throw me some free credit for my time" and they said "no thanks, I'm sure we'll figure it out ourselves one day, don't worry about it". After that I didn't want to touch their product. I also pinged Marko (co-founder) on Twitter and no response there either. So, honestly can't recommend their paid service at all.
- sccxy 5y ago
  Just replaced my Google Analytics with Plausible. Self hosted docker and it is not blocked by adblocker (nginx custom js filename). Only thing I miss at the moment is extensive GA history which is gone now, but Plausible is so much faster and simpler and maybe they implement history import someday.
  - ukutaht 5y ago
    We're working on GA import at the moment[1], it will be the next big feature we land. As with everything we will integrate and test with our large customer base on the hosted version and then release it for self-hosted as well. Next release is planned in Q2. 1: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466 https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466

deepstack 5y ago

Got a 404 when going to the link.

deleted 5y ago
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schleck8 5y ago
They might have changed it just now, or I copied the wrong one. Either way I replaced it with the correct url
timgl 5y ago
Sorry! Had to rename it because of issues with uBlock ironically [0]. New URL is https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives/ https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/alternatives/ [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994768

kingcharles 5y ago

"Plausible" is another, even if I don't like their support.

Volker_W 5y ago
Why don't you like plausible?
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Just that their support rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to use their commercial offering but it had a bug which stopped my site returning any telemetry. They basically refused to do anything about it, and that was a big red flag. With Javascript analytics you need to know that it is returning for 100% of compatible clients with JS enabled, otherwise you are missing valuable metrics. Google Analytics worked fine on my site. Plausible's script causes a script error which killed it dead. It's only a bug in their commercial system. I spent hours debugging it myself and found the bug in their system. Seeing as it's a bug only in their commercial offering (not their open source one) I said "throw me some free credit for my time" and they said "no thanks, I'm sure we'll figure it out ourselves one day, don't worry about it". After that I didn't want to touch their product. I also pinged Marko (co-founder) on Twitter and no response there either. So, honestly can't recommend their paid service at all.
sccxy 5y ago
Just replaced my Google Analytics with Plausible. Self hosted docker and it is not blocked by adblocker (nginx custom js filename). Only thing I miss at the moment is extensive GA history which is gone now, but Plausible is so much faster and simpler and maybe they implement history import someday.
- ukutaht 5y ago
  We're working on GA import at the moment[1], it will be the next big feature we land. As with everything we will integrate and test with our large customer base on the hosted version and then release it for self-hosted as well. Next release is planned in Q2. 1: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466 https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466