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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by downandout on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:16PM (#10474354)
You can certainly obtain this information with your own javascript and record it on your own server. Combine it with your server logs and you have can most of the same information you would have had from GA or another hosted solution.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by jamiesonbecker on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:36PM (#10474523)
Agreed! but s/most/all/g FTFY :)

Actually, GA only provides you with a [meager] subset of the data that Google gathers. Now it's their data.. not yours, and not your customers. They won't even give up IP addresses so that you can check it against your own logs.

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by icoder on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:00PM (#10474667)
Yes, and although that would remedy some of the tracking/privacy concerns with GA, the (grand)parent comment's concern with bandwidth would not be solved but transformed when taking the road you describe.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by natarius4k on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:12PM (#10475106)
I have build myself a little rails gem to help with that: https://github.com/KaktusLab/sql_metrics
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by mhw on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:43PM (#10475288)
I've had pretty good experiences so far with Ahoy - https://ankane.github.io/ahoy/
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by blumkvist on Friday October 30, 2015 @03:41AM (#10476559)
AFAIK, you can use even use google's javascript library.
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