@aral Stop it indeed, use https://matomo.org/ instead.

@AstaMcCarthy @aral

Google analytics doesn't use third party cookies anymore, right?

So what difference with matomo?

@tuxicoman @aral With Google Analytics you share a lot of information with one of the biggest surveillance capitalists in the world. Matomo is free opensource software, your data is your data, not shared with anyone nor used for any other purpose then providing statistics to the website owner.
You can even host Matomo yourself to be absolutely sure your data isn't going anywhere.

@aral confirmed by HTTPArchive Data, as the most proeminent analytics script. https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js represents 0.64% of all the requests of their dataset. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2019/third-parties

@borisschapira @aral

I'd classify Google's font CDN as a tracker also.

It gets:
* Your IP
* Your user agent
* Date & time of visit
* HTTP Referrer (knows what site you visit)

There's little stopping them from correlating your IP with your Google account, if you used the account from your IP and agreed to their services.

Oh, there's also their DNS server.

Read more on my site: https://danuker.go.ro/how-to-protect-your-personal-data.html

#privacy #Google #CDN

@danuker @borisschapira As would I. But unless developers stop adding Google’s trackers to their web sites, we would break most of the web if we blocked that.

https://better.fyi/trackers/gstatic.com/

@aral @borisschapira

Using uBlock Origin, I block third party requests by default.

I need to make adjustments for few sites, and IceWeasel's (also Firefox's) Reader View unbreaks articles even with off-domain CSS.

@aral @danuker @borisschapira decentraleyes?

@SoniEx2 @aral @borisschapira

Decentraleyes barely blocks anything. It seems to work for handpicked resources instead of caching everything on third-party domains.

A user even complains here about fonts and CDNs: https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/issues/34

With uBlock Origin, by default, I block everything except the main server. This breaks many sites, but I can live with that and manage it.

Also, I get rapidly informed of sites that prioritize saving a fraction of bandwidth and/or style over my privacy.

@danuker @aral @borisschapira oh, dang. thanks.

@SoniEx2 @danuker @aral I block everything at the host file level, so that Apps are also prevented to share data with trackers. Blokada on Android, and a script on Mac OS https://boris.schapira.dev/notes/2018-09-one-host-file-to-block-them-all/

@borisschapira @SoniEx2 @aral

Cool! Your approach does cover all apps, but it relies on a big blacklist that needs updating as trackers change domains.

I guess you could also benefit from uBlock Origin and see what 3rd party requests go through unblocked.

@danuker @SoniEx2 @borisschapira And, if you want to, you can use the Better block list with uBlock Origin (but I wouldn’t mix it with others as we go to great pains to try and not break sites while still protecting you/ourselves) :) https://better.fyi/blockerList.txt

@aral This.

@aral nice resource Aral! trying to decrease that number one site at a time with https://plausible.io/

@markosaric @aral Are you aware of any way to integrate Plausible with a site hosted at Adobe Portfolio? Would love that, but no code injection there makes it look like an impossible task.

@maique @aral i'm not familiar with Adobe Portfolio unfortunately but if they don't allow you to insert your own code it makes it difficult to do much

@markosaric Yeah, that's what I figured... Sad Face Emoji. @aral

@markosaric Looks great, Marko :)

@aral thank you Aral!

@markosaric @aral do you know any pros to using this over matomo?

@nx @aral main differences are:

- more lightweight (we're under 1 KB so no impact on page loading time)
- simple to understand (only tracking few of the most important metrics and not everything possible)
- private out of the box as not using cookies and not tracking any personal data so no need to ask for cookie/GDPR consent

See this https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

@markosaric @aral wow thats great will definitely use this

@nx @aral sounds good!

@aral Thanks to your toots I finally did it and removed GA from my site. Sadly the main photo site is hosted at Adobe Portfolio, so I can't use any other platform. Gone are my stats... 😆

@aral Pfffffffff... Non La Il Sont Pas Serieux, better.fuck La Il Utilise Que Apple Ou Quoi ?!??

@aral Just installed. Thanks for your work!

@aral what apple claimed to have is “tracking prevention”, and a screen shot showed google analytics was included in that. it will allow ga to load and run, but, the claim is, yiu’ll look unique from site to site.