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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by Pannoniae on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:35AM (#36584777)
Or even if you don't want to use your web server's logs for this purpose for whatever reason, this is quite trivial to implement in JS yourself. No need for GA and other bloated analytics frameworks.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:37AM (#36584795)
Well, you still need some kind of backend to store the data. You can send it to a 3rd party, but then you'll run into all the same GDPR issues.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by red_trumpet on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @07:00AM (#36584995)
> all the same GDPR issues

Not necessarily. If I read the article correctly, it is about sending data to the US:

> The complaints allege that the companies, in violation of the law, transfer personal data to the United States.

So if the 3rd party is inside the EU, you might be fine. Or at least you may run into different GDPR issues.

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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by belorn on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @07:01AM (#36584999)
If the website is not just a static html page, there is likely a web-server with a database that can store information.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:25AM (#36585729)
Oh, sure, but a LOT of websites are static html pages — or, at least, should be.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by mattmcknight on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:11AM (#36585617)
If you could trivially implement Matomo (a project that has been developing over 16 years) in JS, please open source it. Would love to get rid of the PHP in our stack.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by tedivm on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:21AM (#36585687)
If you're using the docker container it really shouldn't matter.
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Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics by mattmcknight on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:39PM (#36767138)
Security risks still there.
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