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by harianus 7y ago
Adriaan from the article here. You are right. HN is the right target group for Simple Analytics. If I had posted a totally different product with no privacy angle or interest for HN readers, it would have little result. You need to find you
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by harianus 7y ago
Added Simple Analytics [1] [1] https://simpleanalytics.com
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by harianus 7y ago
It seems like you’re saying it’s nice to know the layers of abstraction but it sounds like you don’t use it in real life. As a non CS degree developer I can’t really see anything that I’m missing because of not having the degree. I have a s
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by harianus 7y ago
Thanks! For others, listen to it here: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17575156/mark-zuckerberg-inter...
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by harianus 7y ago
They need to change their business model to be able to become privacy friendly, I totally agree. Not even sure which huge company is privacy friendly. Maybe it's not even possible at that level. But that doesn't mean you shouldn&#
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by harianus 7y ago
Yes, will definitely ask about that.
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by harianus 7y ago
Thanks. That would be interesting to know. One thing; what do you mean with measure it?
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by harianus 7y ago
https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1126892446925848578?s=21
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by harianus 7y ago
What do you mean? I think using CloudFront is not accurate enough if you use caching.
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by harianus 7y ago
Not at the moment. We will implement tracking user flow with in a privacy minded way. I asked Hacker News a while ago if they would think it was privacy friendly [1] To be clear about the other thread about bypassing ad blockers. We will no
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by harianus 7y ago
If your business is to track people, yes. If it's to gather statistics without tracking people (like page views), I think it perfectly fine to bypass ad blockers. We even have a dedicated feature for bypassing ad blockers [1] because w
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by harianus 7y ago
> However this still requires setting up the image on a third-party server. While this is true, we found a solution to bypass ad blockers (which could be implemented by Google Analytics as well). My experience is that ad blockers only bl
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by harianus 7y ago
It's removed by Google, all search result clicks go through an intermediate URL that removes the keywords. You can have some information from the Google URL [1]. [1] https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/107179
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by harianus 7y ago
> Now that we're bootstrapping, we've shifted away from a freemium business model (where users could optionally pay if they wanted) to a paid-only model after a free trial. I think this is great, and where venture capital fails
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by harianus 7y ago
<3
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by harianus 7y ago
Ah, good point. We already do so it's just a matter of not sending the email address to Stripe. Thank you for the suggestion. Added this to our roadmap: https://simpleanalytics.io/roadmap#109207
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by harianus 7y ago
This is a good point. We are moving to a dedicated server to resolve this issue.
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by harianus 7y ago
Iceland has 100% green energy and their location is slightly better. Maybe the biggest plus is their laws.
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by harianus 7y ago
This seems to work for links, but does it work for when you embed a script? > [...] by using the referrerpolicy attribute on <a>, <area>, <img>, <iframe>, or <link> elements Hm, seems not to work for scripts
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by harianus 7y ago
A little note on hosting companies. In Europe at least there are corporations that only host data in Europe and don't use any hosting companies from the US. This is a question which we repeatedly get at Simple Analytics. So avoiding th
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by harianus 7y ago
Good point which I forgot to mention in the article. There are not a Linodes or Digital Oceans in Iceland so it’s definitely more expensive. I think it’s safe to say it’s almost double the price if you buy a VPS with similar specs. Check ou
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by harianus 7y ago
Hi Hacker News, I'm the writer of this blog post. I am pretty sure that HN readers will find incorrect assumptions or know how to tackle the described problems better. I can handle HN feedback, so please help this guy out ;-)
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Show HN: Why we moved our servers to Iceland(blog.simpleanalytics.io)
14 points by harianus 7y ago|5 comments
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by harianus 7y ago
This is a great move Dell. Hope others will follow.
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by harianus 8y ago
Nice! Hope to see more people ditching Google Analytics in the name of privacy!
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by harianus 8y ago
We are going way off topic here, too bad there is not even one answer to my question: > Do you think this is acceptable from a privacy perspective? But back to your point. Query params contain usually tokens, search queries, and id'
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by harianus 8y ago
And what would it be from a privacy perspective if I set a cookie for 90 days. I can't link this to any personal information and my customers will only see my tool where they can see the conversions (they don't get access to the &
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by harianus 8y ago
Not really, that is more for when you have sensitive data and want to show that data publicly. I want to have only insensitive data and make sure I don't get sensitive data from the visitors.
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by harianus 8y ago
I'm happy I can pay for my password manager. It's also great that it's a subscription. You know why? I want people to have money to improve the security of my personal data, I'm using the service every day, so it makes s
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by harianus 8y ago
While I can understand this being true for AOL: > The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box. I don't think I have a similar issue with page views of

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