This is part of why I quit my privacy focused analytics start-up years ago. I won’t name it directly, but it was one of the first and is still going strong (alt

This is part of why I quit my privacy focused analytics start-up years ago. I won’t name it directly, but it was one of the first and is still going strong (although not really open-source anymore). People kept asking for cookieless tracking but with another way of identifying returning visitors that was always worse from a privacy standpoint. Cookies can be controlled by the client, anything stored on the server can not. Honestly, cookies are pretty nice, it’s the law around this that sucks. Tricks that attempt to bypass the laws will surely only work for a limited time, at least I hope they will…