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We have no evidence of that happening. Also Google themselves are on record saying that they don't use GA data for their search algorithm. I wrote a post on this topic: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-seo

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Thanks for submitting Plausible! We have a feature that sends alerts for traffic spikes so I just got an alert that we have large number of visors thanks to this post!

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Plausible can actually do that and we have the same exact use case showing in our live demo (filtering by /blog/ only and allowing filtering per blog post). See https://plausible.io/plausible.io and click on "Visit /blog*" in the Goal Conversion section.

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As in server logs? Accuracy would be the main thing. I did a study and found huge number of bots in server logs (AWStats shows 18 times higher number of page views than Plausible on my own website for instance). See https://plausible.io/blog/server-log-analysis

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Yes. Take a look at our shared links feature (private, secure and can be password protected). Those with the shared link only get access to the individual dashboard that you shared and nothing else.

https://plausible.io/docs/shared-links

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GhostWriter is amazing! I use it on Linux and write all my posts with it!

Simple, minimal, lightweight, has a dark theme. There's a distraction free mode which basically fades out everything except for the sentence you are writing. And a Hemingway mode which disables the delete key :)

I've gotten used to writing in Markdown since I started using GhostWriter as it makes that easy. For instance when I type "[" it automatically adds "]" as well. Worth a try!

thank you David for the kind words and the support! and thanks for sharing my post too!

Congrats to DuckDuckGo! It's amazing to see a privacy-first Google alternative making such great progress! I personally contribute with a few searches every day :)

Just checked the stats for our startup:

December:

Google 5.3k visitors

DDG 589 visitors

Bing 57 visitors

This month it looks a bit closer:

Google 2.8k

DDG 378

Bing 36

thanks! perhaps because we're new to open source maintenance, but early on we tried to help each and every support request from self-hosters and it quickly turned out an impossible task. we do help every paying subscriber so tried to do the same for self-hosters but unfortunately it gets very difficult with our limited resources. so now we're simply setting expectations straight so people know what they can or cannot expect

thanks! all our code is still on github so you could just download the "testing" version we use on the cloud and run that.

the slower schedule of the official "stable" self-hosted release is to simply make it possible for us to make it work.

we're a two person team and because of the popularity of the product, we've become overwhelmed with support requests from self-hosters and needed to make a change in the expectations and the process

you can see the exact method on our data policy: https://plausible.io/data-policy

for sure. we spoke to some more experienced open source developers and this was the idea they proposed. we thought it's worth a try

thanks! glad you're enjoying Plausible!

thank you! it's great to see some more ethical alternatives available for site owners

thank you for your support!

they're still hosted by Google rather than self-hosted.

So true! So many sites use those icons/symbols in the nav etc so their sites end up broken without web fonts. Other than that, it feels so much better and faster blocking web fonts.

Yeah. That's the first thing I noticed. I was curious whether the OP either returned back to Google Fonts since posting this or never did it in the first place!?

That's great to see! At Plausible Analytics, we had a wave of spam attacks two months ago or so and hCaptcha saved us. Great product and great service both for companies and for users. We're very happy with how it works. And great to have a quality de-Googled alternative for this use case!

RIP Maradona! The greatest footballer of all time! Napoli is crying :(

For Linux, there's Flatseal for all Flatpak apps. Easy and simple GUI that allows you to set permissions for individual apps including network access, microphone/camera access and directories access.

have similar experience. struggled with Matrix/Element and with Signal too. the only app that works for non-techy audience in my experience is Telegram. i got several people to stick and continue using Telegram while i did not succeed with the other two. i guess better than Whatsapp in any case!

on the other hand, we use Matrix for all the communication in our little startup. we got some integration going on such as rss feed and notifications about new signups etc. works great as a Slack alternative.

So true! It's like "Firefox is not perfect so let's support Chrome which is not trying at all"! How will that ever make anything better!?

Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. So yes, there's no way for us to know whether the same person returns to a website on another day. See https://plausible.io/data-policy

We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a hash function with a rotating salt.

hash(daily_salt + website_domain + ip_address + user_agent)

This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day. Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next.

Full details are here: https://plausible.io/data-policy

Everything is isolated. There's no way for us nor for our customers to get visitor history across days, across websites or across devices. See https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics

Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. See https://plausible.io/data-policy

We never store IP addresses in our database or logs. See the full details of our data policy: https://plausible.io/data-policy

Do you have any examples of projects doing this? Thanks!

thanks! that's a good point and makes sense to do!