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If you host a site on your own bare VPS and only use server-side analytics then one could argue that's "not violating privacy". The client browser is volunteer
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
If you host a site on your own bare VPS and only use server-side
analytics then one could argue that's "not violating privacy". The
client browser is volunteering up UA and other network information.
You may have the most ethical intentions and respect for your web
users. But sadly, you throw all that to the crows the moment you
outsource to third party "cloud" services. Free and cheap webhosting
and analytics services all make their money by spying on traffic and
selling it to aggregators and whatnot. As soon as you add third party
JavaScript to a page you abdicate all such claims and control.