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by zimmerx 1693 days ago
Rudderstack user here (and ex Segment). Thanks for sharing this stuff, very cool project.

Just to answer some of this:

- rudderstack has deploy ready helm charts, which I'd argue are significantly better than docker compose or docker setups because they set up all the other niggly parts. Would be cool to see that here :)

- rudderstack has gone quite far away from replacing segment. It's true that their core API is compatible and I think your transformation layer is really cool. However it can be used for those use cases because rudderstack doesn't really care about users or user IDs and can be used for any sort of data generally.

There's a piece in the docs talking about the fact that you don't get caught by adblock - whilst this may be true when someone launches it, that's not true of your platform. That's just the fact that a lot of smaller businesses will not get their URLs added to the ad block lists. I think it's a bit misleading to mention that in such a way because technically we're all tracking users and ad block is a way for users to choose not to be tracked, not be tricked into being tracked because someone has masked the tracking script ;) if a huge client (a la Adidas or something) decided to use your scripts I'm sure someone would eventually add it to the ad block lists that get propagated.

One of the things that would be cool would be some sort of opt in configuration. Segment has some awful consent SDK that is really bad, would be cool to see what you do there. GDPR is a big deal and browser fingerprinting is data processing. It's worth looking at your comments on being GDPR compliant btw https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/gdpr-and-browser-finge...