[tripzilch]

> I tried several; they're all either non-functional out of the box, or require significant time investment to even start approaching Google Analytics.

It's almost as if you need to be a software engineer and do actual software engineering, to responsibly use tools like analytics.

> I ended up going back to Google. It took the same amount of time to set up as when I initially set it up: around 2 minutes of adding the tracking code and uploading it.

So how much effort is the privacy of your visitors worth, then?

It sounds like deep down you know the right thing to do, which is a lot of work, but seeing everybody (in your bubble of technical peers) just as easily use Google Analytics, makes you feel like you're owed the difference to these profits.

Maybe there shouldn't be a 2-minute turnkey solution to analytics, because even if it's self-hosted, your next excuse is going to be that it requires a significant time effort to keep it secure and act responsibly with the data.