[pawal]

Is there a privacy friendly analytics tool that does not set cookies and store data Forever? I don't really care about perfect user analytics, just good enough. Maybe by analysing logs. In the 90's there was s lot of good tools like this, but now everybody has gone cloud. I can't imagine the tools offered today are compatible with GDPR.

[Findus23]

Hi,

You can configure Matomo [1] to both not use any cookies [2] and to automatically delete just the raw data or all data that is older than x months. Log Analytics is also possible.

If you want something that is far more minimalistic, but also Open Source and self-hostable, you can take a look at [3]. (Not sure about how they use cookies)

(Disclaimer: I am part of the Matomo team)

[1] https://matomo.org/ [2] https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/ [3] https://usefathom.com/

[gorkemcetin]

Countly (if you want) can be configured so it doesn't set cookies [1]

You can also configure to remove any data older than N days/months.

It is also GDPR compliant [2]

[1] https://resources.count.ly/docs/countly-sdk-for-web#section-...

[2] https://resources.count.ly/docs/compliance-hub

[dvko]

https://GoAccess.io is great for analysing access logs.

That said, there are solutions where a cookie allows for greater privacy because it allows you to leave sensitive data on the client versus having to store it on the server. For example, https://usefathom.com/ is an open-source self-hosted analytics tool that uses a cookie to enhance privacy.

[aparks517]

I work on https://getmirrorshades.com It doesn’t use cookies. Data is aggregated immediately and purged on a tight schedule. May be worth seeing if it is sufficient for your use case.