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by number6 707 days ago
> In practice this'd probably need to be resolved in court, and I'm sure not a single SME using Plausible or similar will even get a stern letter, much less fined.

Agreed.

Plausible just makes false claims like:

> All the site measurement is carried out absolutely anonymously. Cookies are not used and no personal data is collected. There are no persistent identifiers.

That's a heavy statement and it is simply not true, as you quoted:

> an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person

hash(daily_salt + website_domain + ip_address + user_agent) will fall under this definition.

But again, you are right, better then anything any other service does

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Which part is simply not true?

The lack of persistence is one of the main design points.

If you're saying it's collection, that gets complicated because that data has to be there for the server to work at all.