Comment by iLoveOncall
3 years ago
Those decisions are good in theory, but in practice they will kill the free web.
The only people that have the work power to put equivalent alternatives in place are the big corporations, that will anyway find a loophole.
I run my small blog, and I can't spend days or even weeks to setup a subpar analytics solution. I won't even start talking about self-hosting an analytics solution which would probably double my monthly server cost for a website on which I earn 0€.
In 2030, if we continue on that trend, websites will be in two categories: belonging to huge companies, or running illegally. It's baffling that people are applauding the end of the free web.
Why does your small blog need an "analytics solution" in the first place, if you earn $0?
Because I want to know where my readers come from, which Google terms they searched, etc.? There's a million reasons to want to know stats like this without earning money...
As a user, I don't want to give this info. I'm glad the EU is giving folks an avenue to express this preference.
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> which Google terms they searched, etc.
GA doesn't tell you which terms they searched. They mostly stopped doing this in 2013.
Google Search Console _does_ tell you the search terms, and without any tracking on your website.
Honestly, at this stage the "free web" can fuck right off. The "free web" you speak of generates a lot of negative externalities everyone else has to put up with. If your "free" web needs to attack everyone with spyware for it to exist then it's not really "free".
> I run my small blog, and I can't spend days or even weeks to setup a subpar analytics solution.
tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log