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Re:EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers f... by msravi on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:29AM (#19428080)
> You can take your server logs and then what will a non technical person do with them? Not much.

Can this analysis be done offline? Data collection can be done without third-party accesses, and any analysis on that data can be done offline using separate tools, isn't it? That removes the third-party script surface of attack.

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Re:EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers f... by codezero on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:40AM (#19428841)
Nobody has built a useful tool to do this. So, no, not in practice.
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Re:EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers f... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:24AM (#19428997)
There are tools for analyzing server logs. I played with a CLI tool for that, but here's first result for regular folks from Google search on "server logs analytics":

https://matomo.org/feature-overview/

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Re:EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers f... by icebraining on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:00AM (#19429159)
Matomo is the new name of Piwik; it's self-hosted, but JavaScript based, not just a server log processor.
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Re:EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers f... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:28AM (#19429555)
Apparently you can use it for just server logs; see: https://matomo.org/faq/log-analytics-tool/#faq_16303.
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