[chrismorgan]

> I had to capitulate for google analytics.

Ask yourself how much you actually need analytics. I found I seldom looked at it. I myself replaced Google Analytics with self-hosted Matomo for a while, but then I just dropped it altogether because I simply don’t need it. Now I do have server logs that I can look at, and from time to time I do (and they reveal things like Atom feeds consume the substantial majority of the traffic and page loads, which client-side JS logging would never have revealed!), but it wouldn’t bother me to have no analytics at all.

[asaaki]

I decided to have no (client side) tracking at all, for both usually it requires JS and cookies. And honestly I don't like to have both on my site if not strictly necessary (as a European citizen I'm also quite aware of all the shenanigans one has to do wrt privacy and consent).

[gbrindisi]

I just want to know if what I write is being read and how is propagated/shared

[zelphirkalt]

If effort or time was not a limitation, you could opt for a tool that you can self host, instead of increasing Google's data.

[forgotmypw17]

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