RArapnie·Sep 20, 2018
And also Matomo (https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo)
In Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analyticsmatomo-org
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Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
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Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
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Observed mentions: 2015-09-11 00:09:39 UTC to 2023-05-17 19:31:13 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesunfortunately, matomo is harder than necessary to automatically deploy to containerized environments like heroku because they don't support the 12 factor principles [1]. a cynic might assume that this is because it would undermine their own hosted solution.
[1] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223
(i would use matomo if they fixed this issue)
In Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analyticsI've started doing this as a hobby, to see how many services I regularly use can be replaced. They're all behind an nginx reverse proxy + letsencrypt cert on a hetzner box.
IRC: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/ (Use a lot, and it works decently well)
Cloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ (Works surprisingly well, however, I've heard there are security issues)
Analytics: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/ (I'm comparing how much I'd lose out compared to google analytics, if I ever move away from it)
Chat: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/ (never really use it, just wanted to see how it works)
Git: https://github.com/gogits/gogs (Mostly for mirroring git repos)
Browser IDE: https://icecoder.net/ (I'm able to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself)
Calibre library front end: https://github
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.com/janeczku/calibre-web
Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it)
Linkshortener: https://github.com/LINKIWI/linkr (occasional use)
Mail + mailbox + webmail: https://mailcow.email/ (Had to spend a bit more time, but now it is able to deliver mails to gmail/outlook/icloud without issues. I use it as a mailing solution for all the selfhosted projects which need smtp)
Online Markdown editor: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger (Used quite a few times)
Minecraft server
Music streaming: https://github.com/phanan/koel/ (I'm not a native english speaker, so quite a few songs I listen to aren't on spotify)
Neo4j, mongodb, mysql and postgres: For all database needs.
Server monitoring: https://github.com/firehol/netdata
Photos: https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free (I use it quite a lot to host images I'd have used imgur instead)
R Studio server, and Jupyter notebooks: For work/hobby programming
I've had a lot of help from https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
I"ve had to move from one VPS provider to another while testing, so I have a handy guide for setting up quick here: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup .
I have a separate guide for hosting each of the above projects behind an nginx with https, but its quite rough right now. So its private.
And that’s on top of the main problem: tracking people without their knowledge, approval or a court order is just flat-out wrong. The fact that it can be done is no excuse. Nor is the monstrous sum of money made by it.
I use Piwik (https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo) and track visitors without their knowledge or consent, because I need analytics. Piwik is also configured to respect the "Do not track" header, so opting out is as easy as indicating that you don't wish to be tracked.
Is that wrong?
And I use Piwik precisely because it's self-hosted. I know for a fact your data doesn't get sold, because the data never hits any server except mine.
If this seems acceptable, it's also why legislation seems worrisome. There are a lot of corner cases that law tends to overlook. But hopefully the requirements won't be too onerous.
In GDPR will pop the adtech bubbleChinese citizen here. A few points that I want to make after reading some comments:
1. I would be personally offended if anyone or any organization lists Tibet as a country.
2. Lots of Chinese people would be offended too by this.
Reasons for 1 and 2:
- It is a piece of wrong information
- The wrong information directly contradicts what is considered basic knowledge in China
- That basic knowledge happens to be on the topic of sovereignty
- Chinese people care a lot of sovereignty (see https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6006)
Why do Chinese people care so much about sovereignty? Culture and history.
It is the same question as:
- Why do Americans care so much about freedom of speech, democracy and race equality?
- Why do Japanese people care so much about respect and etiquette?
Now addressing the obvious issue, that some people su
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pport the idea of Tibet becoming independent and they should be free to express their ideas. Yes, they are free to say so, but there are two things to keep in mind:
- Opinions are not facts, you can support whatever you want, but don't say it as a fact like "Tibet is a country as of 24 March, 2018." That is not the right thing to do.
- If you choose to freely express your opinions or spread false information, you will face consequences for them. For example, a PR firm would likely tell you that expressing such opinions would results in negative brand image and boycott in China. In addition, saying something like that in China would result in more serious consequences. You might not like it, but that is beyond your control and you should be aware of that.