[rubenverborgh]

How does running analytics on my site impair my ability to talk about what Tim Berners-Lee wants to do for freedom and control? ;-)

Yes, I track how popular what content is on my site. Motivates me to write more. Please feel free to block trackers; I do that as well.

[amiga-workbench]

Have you considered Piwik or a similar self hosted analytics solution?

I don't care if people run Analytics, its just when they go sharing all that data with a third party that it gets troubling.

[rubenverborgh]

Yes, I urgently need to migrate; same with Disqus, needs to become Solid.

[rapnie]

PS. It is called Matomo now and at https://matomo.org

[diminoten]

It undermines your argument, is what it does.

You can talk about it all you want, but as long as you continue to participate in the very thing you rail against, you're going to struggle to be taken seriously.

[nothrabannosir]

People who participate in something are often best positioned to criticise it, because they:

A) know how the sausage is made, and

B) stand to actually lose something if people believe them, i.e. they are standing by their point in spite of the negative consequences to themselves.

People on the dole who argue against (details / implementation of) social security should be taken seriously. Rich people arguing against tax breaks for the wealthy. Programmers against big tech firms. Etc.

[diminoten]

So only murderers should judge other murderers?

Hmm.

[kkarakk]

technically the whole criminal judicial system is a licensed murderer

[rubenverborgh]

That's not at all how argumentation works :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753

[arendtio]

'Actions speak louder than words.' ;-)

[diminoten]

That's exactly how argumentation works...

[rubenverborgh]

You’re confusing argumentation with perception.