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Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
by nitn 5y ago
Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
- hhh 5y agoIs it illegal in the United States?
- charcircuit 5y agoNo
- blibble 5y agothe GDPR doesn't care where the website is as long as it's accessible to EU citizens it would be most amusing to watch the EU commission attempt to enforce its extraterritorial !bad, bad cookies! law against the US federal government on its own website
- xeromal 5y agoEasy
- qiqitori 5y agoBack in my day, the mantra was "Information wants to be free", and laws limiting freedom on the internet and freedom of information were looked down upon.
- shadowgovt 5y agoBack in the day usage of the internet grossly over-represented one country with a concept of free speech that, by global standards, is extremist.
- VWWHFSfQ 5y agoI'm not sure I understand what you're saying
- shadowgovt 5y agoAs a DARPA project, the early internet was populated almost exclusively by Americans for quite a long time. It grew rapidly, but I suspect that you're thinking about the culture that was steeped in almost everybody you talked to being an American. Americans have a philosophy of the freedom of speech grounded in the principles of the First Amendment. Those principles are not universally shared, and indeed, even amongst the liberal nations the American take on the topic is pretty liberal (contrast the way, say, speech overtly supporting fascism is treated in Germany vs. the relatively new and controversial hate speech laws in the US, or the principles of affirmative defense for defamation in the US not shared by the UK, or the Refused Classification category for videogames in Australia, or the fact that the law of against "publication or utterance of blasphemous matter" was repealed in Ireland in 2020). As the average internet user grows to resemble more the average human than the average American human, regression to the international mean on freedom of information is to be anticipated.
- notatoad 5y agois there a self-hosted alternative that provides the same functionality?
- EricE 5y agoLots! One that I really liked - tried on a small personal project so not sure how it works at scale: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics