<story><title>Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers&apos; privacy</title><url>https://matomo.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riogordo2go</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible. 
Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad&amp;#x2F;tracking blocker. Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems to be writing your own analytics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>At this point in history, tracking on the web is no longer a trusted activity where people can assume that the person behind the tracking is doing it for benevolent purposes. It&amp;#x27;s the same thing with email and spam, especially when attachments are involved.&lt;p&gt;Writing your own analytics can give some additional benefits in that you are only collected what you need while taking into considerations your users needs. I expect however that in time browsers will block more and more by default, similar in how email clients and services has progressed in their arm race with spam.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers&apos; privacy</title><url>https://matomo.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riogordo2go</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible. 
Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad&amp;#x2F;tracking blocker. Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems to be writing your own analytics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chpatrick</author><text>You can usually rename the tracker to something that&amp;#x27;s not on the blocklist.</text></comment>