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Do you really need google analytics for this?

need is a strong word. Do I need the entire site - no. The mentality was more like "oh haha joke site?.... I wonder how many people are actually looking at the site and from where.. man I wonder if there is a solution for that... oh right google analytics."

> I wonder how mwany people are actually looking at the site and from where.. man I wonder if there is a solution for that... oh right google analytics.

And I wonder if it's possible to make a 2 dollar website without tracking your users or reporting to google.

I expect most people who dabble with technology use an adblocker anyway which blocks requests to google analytics.

I wouldn't mind a self hosted analytics solution, but with all the captchas and the mails, I feel we give google enough information as it is.

wellllllllll when you make a website as a joke you can choose which if any analytics solution you want. And deal with the critics that use analytic blockers to complain about your analytics solution.

The site collected 10k visits over 3 days from around the world.

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