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If you use access logs for user analytics, you need all the same consents and adhere to the same ePrivacy/GDPR rules as JavaScript/Cookie-based tools. Once you
by closewith 3y ago
If you use access logs for user analytics, you need all the same consents and adhere to the same ePrivacy/GDPR rules as JavaScript/Cookie-based tools. Once you build all the necessary tooling to use logs lawfully for user analytics, it won't be simpler than the commercial tools.
> It's bad enought that marketing departments has convinced 99% of companies (or has overruled product / engineering) that it's good to track and make websites slower in the process.
Marketing departments need the tracking to use the commercially available advertising, primarily from Google, Meta, and Bytedance. The tracking increases the return on advertising spend by 10-100x and for many businesses is required to be profitable.
This is the typical HN comment from an overconfident developer who believes everything they don't personally like must be the result of idiocy and incompetence.