> The only way to do analytics in a way that's respectful to the visitors' privacy is with an installable on-host software. That's it. How is that more respect

> The only way to do analytics in a way that's respectful to the visitors' privacy is with an installable on-host software. That's it. How is that more respectful? I can fingerprint you pretty much the same with server logs (IP, user-agent, ...), don't I? I can even use cookies without any JS.