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smonsays··on Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
> Option to not use any cookies while still being able to determine returning visitors and unique pageviews.

This strikes me as a potentially non privacy-friendly feature. How is this implemented? I assume some form of fingerprinting must be used?

smonsays··on What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
> But think about what attracted you to Linux in the first place. [...] It was probably a sense of freedom, the promise of a more robust, more secure, more private system. OpenBSD is just the next step on that ladder

Although I agree that OpenBSD can offer a cleaner experience if you are willing to compromise on the software you use, when it comes to freedom, I would not consider OpenBSD the next step on the ladder. Of course this is a very personal and philosophical question, but a very significant difference to Linux is the permissive BSD licensing used by OpenBSD. In my opinion the GNU licensing is a big reason why GNU/Linux got so successful since it pushed big companies like IBM to feed their contributions back into the GNU/Linux ecosystem.