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In addition to what jdiez had to say about GA - we're trying to understand our audience a little better. MediaCrush uses tons of new web tech that won't work on outdated browsers, and GA helps us get an easy look at support for things like that. Also tells us what kind of media is most popular, and who's sending us traffic, which is just kind of nice to know.

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I want to like you, but for me using GA nullifies every nice thing you say in https://mediacru.sh/serious

There is no excuse for not running your own: http://demo.piwik.org/

Also worth reading: http://manurevah.com/blah/en/blog/Like-this-if-You-are-Again...

I'd volunteer to set it up for you on a virtual machine for free.

Okay, I understand that using Google Analytics when we're so pro-privacy is a bit of a weird choice.

We've realised that self-hosting our analytics might be a better choice. I've created an issue[1] to discuss this matter. Ideally what we'd want is something as close to GA as possible - real time analytics being reasonably important.

Note: we were aware of the implications of using GA on the site, but since we offer the ability to disable them very easily we didn't think it was a big deal. That's a mistake on our part, so let's discuss how to fix it.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/117

LOL! Okay, we don't like Piwik because it's written in PHP, so fsck privacy, google can haz it. This is truly sad.

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