Re:Taking on Google
by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:27PM
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Fingerprinting. That's what I do for Pirsch (https://pirsch.io/) and I think they do it in a similar manner. You can check out our source code here: https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/blob/master/finge... or take a look at the Plausible repo.
Oh this is really great. Thanks for that. The code is concise.
Re:Taking on Google
by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:44PM
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Yeah that's the easy part. It gets more interesting when you get try to filter bots, parse the user-agent and stuff like that.
Even though it may be cookieless, you won’t « get away with GDPR » with fingerprinting.
It looks like the finger print only rely on ip/user-agent and I think ip/user-agent are ok to be stored and still GDPR compliance?
Re:Taking on Google
by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:42PM
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Everything that can be used to uniquely identify a visitor falls under the GDPR. We don't store IP addresses, so it should be GDPR compliant, but we still need to check that to make the claim.
At my app https://hanami.run I don't track user and cannot know if the same users visit our website :-(. I don't want to use cookie and want to get away with GDPR. At the same time, I love to see which visitors repeatly read my website/blog and where they drop so I can optimize my site.