markosaric

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   by markosaric 6y ago

   thank you! happy to hear about that :)
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   thanks for including Plausible on that list!
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   here is my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696768
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   downsides are basically that in order to gain the benefits for the user privacy and compliance with regulations, you lose a bit of accuracy depending on the situation. we cannot see whether the same person returns to a site on a different d
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   yes, that's a trade-off in this privacy first approach. if several people are on the same ip address, visiting the same website and having the same user agent on the same day, they look the same to us.
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   thanks! makes sense and i'd like to see that change too! i've added the request to our github now so we'll see what can be done: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues/344
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   there was another question about this that i responded to in this thread. no local storage is used. We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   Plausible was not built to be a clone or a full on feature by feature replacement. It is an alternative that works for many people who think GA is complicated, slow, privacy intrusive and so on. We do try to add what we believe are 20% of G
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   we have a live demo here where you can see exactly what we offer with our own website stats: https://plausible.io/plausible.io otherwise i've published a comparison with Google Analytics: https://plausible.i
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    server logs are good but unfortunately not very accurate for most site owners thanks to all the bots. with javascript analytics, it's easy to block those logs. i did a study here comparing the numbers between the server and client side
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    yeah, i understand. we're trying to have a balance between these: 1. privacy of site visitors 2. compliance with privacy regulations 3. useful and actionable data for site owners it's difficult to track people from visit to visit
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    that's good to hear! thank you!
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    we have the "top pages" report which includes all the pages users have viewed. you can click on any page to see the full drill down too. we only show browsers at this time but there's been a request to add browser versions to
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    no. that's the decision we made in order to be as privacy focused as possible. there's no way to know whether the same person comes back to a site the day after or later. they will always be counted as a new visitor after the firs
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thank you! our Self-Hosted version was possible thanks to several contributors on our GitHub https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues One contributor from HN helped us reduce our script down to 0.7 KB from 1.
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thanks! Changelog guys were good to us and helped give us a push earlier this year. they invited us on the show after one of our posts was shared on HN!
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a hash function with a rotating salt. hash(daily_salt + website_domain + ip_address + user_agent) This
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Hello HN! We started developing Plausible early last year, launched our SaaS business and you can now self-host Plausible on your server too! The project is battle-tested running on more than 5,000 sites and we’ve counted 180 million page v
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    Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative(plausible.io)

    351 points by markosaric 6y ago|139 comments
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Private browsing doesn't help with this type of tracking. You need to use a browser or a browser add-on that blocks Facebook as a third-party connection. So if any site or app has a Facebook pixel that sends data back to Facebook it wi
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    There are some already. I'm working on Plausible Analytics. Modern dashboard, simple metrics to understand, open source, can be self-hosted, lightweight script (<1 KB), no cookies and doesn't collect personal data https:/
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    There may be some like that. But studies have proven that 90%+ people say no to tracking when given a fair chance. So any site that monetizes with personalized advertising banners (or any site that uses tracking such as pixels for marketing
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Yeah! And this is the only legit way to do it if you actually follow GDPR. It has to be just as simple and easy to opt out as it is to opt in. But unfortunately most sites that rely on surveillance don't want to give an easy way to opt
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    How we bootstrapped our startup to $2,750 MRR in 135 days without ads(plausible.io)

    3 points by markosaric 6y ago|0 comments
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Completely agree! Google also plays a part in majority of websites. Pretty much every website has to call at least one if not two or more domains owned by Google. Analytics, DoubleClick, fonts... it's not looking healthy.
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Nice improvements! Firefox keeps delivering! But Chrome browser market share is now up on 71% while Firefox is down to 7.3% :(
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Same here. I end up blocking those that I notice using uBlock Origin so they never show up again globally. A simple "live chat" link in the navigation or footer like they've done works so much better than the intrusive popups
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Ban Facebook and Google too? Their data collection is so much more powerful. Never seen TikTok scripts anywhere while most apps and sites send your personal data to FB and Google. Pretty much every American is tracked by Google and FB no ma
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Some of my favorites: Lukas Graham, Tina Dico, Claus Hempler and D-A-D (Disneyland After Dark).
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    So true. Loads very slow as well compared to the old version. I still use old.reddit.com when on desktop and Slide app for Reddit on my phone.