[dylz]

I agree wholeheartedly with this, and also toss simpleanalytics into the ring. They explicitly advertise the ability to bypass blockers and set up custom subdomains on their frontpage, which IMO _the person that is blocking it does not wish to send telemetry_, forcing them to do it is both a forced opt-in and rude as hell.

If you are going to try to turn a profit by yelling about how you're so respectful and compliant, maybe not intentionally try to bypass end-users' explicit, human-set, consensual opt-out with your forced shady opt-in.

You are not being "privacy friendly", you are refusing the user's explicit "no consent, please don't do this" and forcing yourself on them anyway.

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An unrelated note on technical infrastructure: many of these projects are EU based and proudly tell everyone that they are EU based.

Unfortunately, for example - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act:

- Plausible hosts on DigitalOcean

- Plausible uses Cloudflare

- Simpleanalytics uses Cloudflare

- Fathom is on AWS