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Privacy
2 months ago
- The website sets no cookies at all.
- Uses Umami for analytics: cookie-free, anonymous, aggregated data with no personal identification.
- Hosting is on GitHub Pages; GitHub may collect technical info like IP and browser details, but the site owner cannot access those logs.
- Any emails sent to the owner are only used for replies; no mailing lists, sales, or sharing without consent or legal requirement.
- No ads, tracking pixels, or collection of personal information.
- Users have rights under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and GDPR (though minimal data is held).
- Contact via email at paris AT paris.id.au for questions, complaints, or general contact.
Tracking-free audience statistics - Bert Hubert's writings
2 months ago
- The author criticizes surveillance capitalism and the prevalence of third-party tracking on websites, including their own sites.
- Many websites use Google Analytics, sharing visitor data with Google, but the insights are often not actionable and come with privacy costs like GDPR cookie warnings.
- Content creators need to know if articles are actually read and how far readers progress, which most analytics platforms do not provide.
- The author developed audience-minutes.js, an open-source script that samples reading minutes and scroll depth without tracking, cookies, or third-party services.
- The script generates density graphs showing where readers spend time, helping authors understand engagement and article length effectiveness.
- The solution demonstrates that useful audience statistics can be gathered without compromising user privacy.
Tracking unique visitors without cookies
3 months ago
- Analytics tools track unique visitors through methods like cookies, localStorage, fingerprinting, and salted hashes, each with trade-offs in accuracy and privacy.
- Margin uses a cookieless approach by deriving visitor IDs from IP addresses and user agents, scoped to a single day to ensure privacy and avoid cross-day tracking.
- Unlike cookies and localStorage, Margin's method does not store data on the user's device, eliminating the need for consent banners under ePrivacy rules.
- Margin's server-side hashing occurs within the user's infrastructure, so raw identifiers never leave their stack, enhancing trust and privacy.
- Day-scoped IDs have limitations: no cross-day unique counts, merging of shared IPs, and identifier churn due to changes in user agents or network conditions.
- For signed-in users, Margin can use session-based identifiers, restoring cross-day tracking and retention metrics without additional consent requirements.
- Cookieless analytics like Margin shift from requiring consent banners to relying on legitimate interest under GDPR, though privacy policy disclosures are still necessary.
Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations
3 months ago
- GitStock transforms GitHub commits into an SVG candlestick chart resembling a market chart.
- It allows users to input a public repository to visualize recent commits and code changes.
- The tool helps assess repository activity and health trends quickly through a shareable format.

analytics

Privacy

Tracking-free audience statistics - Bert Hubert's writings

Tracking unique visitors without cookies

Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations