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Edit: I can see that it reads like that. Thats not the point. DDG are not the bad guys. Google is.

You can check out Simple Analytics too https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/why-simple-analytics-is...

Using Simple Analytics here. Not self-hosted but privacy-friendly and cookieless by design.

What happens when privacy shield 2.0 is made into a legal document? Everyone will be using Google Analytics again?

You might want to check out Simple Analytics as well. From a privacy perspective this is actually a good shout. We classified it as follows:

Matomo looks more like Google and the data is yours. Plausible and Simple Analytics are more similar to one another in the sense that they only collect privacy-insenstive data.

The main difference is that plausible still operates in a 'grey-area' by anonymizing IP addresses for 24 hours. This can be considered fingerprinting.

Why did you choose Matomo?

It's compliant if you show a cookie banner on your website. It not really privacy-friendly as you are still setting cookies on your users devices.

There is one point from the Google announcement that I fully agree with and that is that the future of analytics is cookieless by design (only google won't be a part of this)

There are some interesting points here. It's really about the exchange of data to US servers that seems to be the problem, as Google is obliged by law to disclose data if asked for by the U.S. Intelligence service. Do you believe they will fix this?