I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platform for Learning Japanese

Re:I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platfor... by 3np on Saturday September 06, 2025 @05:29PM (#45153031)

Looks neat but wish it wasn't sending user data to Google Analytics of all places.

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Re:I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platfor... by colesantiago on Saturday September 06, 2025 @06:35PM (#45153532)

What do you suggest they do instead?

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Re:I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platfor... by me_bx on Saturday September 06, 2025 @07:09PM (#45153748)

What do they need Google Analytics for? Is it a must-have or a nice to have? In my experience most small website owners have web analytics setup but barely ever check the reports.

Some alternatives:

  * don't have web analytics at all
  * self-host a Plausible Analytics or other open source analytics solution
  * use the data from server-side access logs (for those using nginx, apache or other similar solutions)
  * use Vercel web analytics' free tier (relevant for kanadojo which appears to be hosted there) - more privacy friendly than Google Analytics.

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Re:I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platfor... by 4u00u on Sunday September 07, 2025 @06:05AM (#45156886)

simpleanalytics is also a good alternative and they have a free tier

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Re:I'm Making a Beautiful, Aesthetic and Open-Source Platfor... by fsflover on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:48AM (#45156523)

Related discussions:

Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics (plausible.io)

1214 points by robin_reala on Aug 31, 2021 | 689 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365163

Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority (cnil.fr)

1172 points by guillem_lefait on Feb 10, 2022 | 1112 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284372