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>whitelist those analytics that fulfill it (open source, minimal data, no personal data, no cookies/persistent identifiers, no cross-site/device tracking, no connection to adtech etc)

Unpopular Opinion on HN.

This is hard. And sort of force everyone into the same bracket of privacy. As a contrarian, I actually want to know returning visitors ( It doesn't even need to be 100% accurate ). Right now, Tech uses privacy as a word for anonymous. In a real world analogy, the current privacy definition means I would be intruding my customer's privacy if I recognise the same customer coming into my coffee shop everyday during roughly the same time ordering the same latte with Oat milk.

I dont need to know who they are, and I shouldn't be able to buy what ever set of Data to match their profile or be able to sell my data for others to match him/her. Which is what I think is wrong with current tracking and adtech. But knowing my customers should not be it.