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Re:Taking on Google by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:27PM (#26651892)
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.
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Re:Taking on Google by kureikain on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:32PM (#26653430)
Oh this is really great. Thanks for that. The code is concise.
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Re:Taking on Google by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:44PM (#26653537)
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.
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Re:Taking on Google by A21z on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:13PM (#26653258)
Even though it may be cookieless, you won’t « get away with GDPR » with fingerprinting.
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Re:Taking on Google by kureikain on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:33PM (#26653439)
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?
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Re:Taking on Google by marvinblum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:42PM (#26653510)
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.
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