How can I trust the project when I can't even visit the official website without being logged by the biggest company of online tracking?
How can I trust the project when I can't even visit the official website without being logged by the biggest company of online tracking?
When someone shows me an: open sourced, graphical, log based, spam ip filtering, self hosted, server alternative to GA that I can set up in < 10x the time I will happily switch to it. In the meantime, if I want to know how my website performs I don’t know of privacy-forward competitive options.
If privacy is your core business you make compromises, and you should be prepared to spend some time to set up something like a self hosted piwik instead of using GA.
This should be obvious.
Of course if your site is about your new facebook app, just go ahead and use GA, nobody will bother you about it.
Privacy in abstract is not their core business. A clean, privacy friendly fork of Android is.
In fact, it's not even a business, is a non-profit effort.
I would pick it over Google Analytics for any privacy-focused open-source project even if it doesn't tick every single box in your list.
How can you say "Privacy is important! $E_CORP is tracking you! - btw, here run this script so I can track you"?
It works very much like Google Analytics and is not log based but should otherwise tick all your boxes. Installation is very straightforward but the using the dashboard, reporting etc. has a bit of a learning curve.
Nothing can ever compete with Google if you need statistics for "single middle aged mothers in a major city" simply because few others can profile users at that level but although it looks impressive it's not always correct and can be hard to use correctly. Piwik has great reporting tools and is easy to integrate with other systems.
It's also less likely to be blocked by adblock lists.
Spend some time using uMatrix (much better than NoScript these days). If you're running uMatrix you do not need NoScript.
Some good documentation in regard to uMatrix:
https://www.electricmonk.nl/docs/umatrix_tutorial/umatrix_tu...
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/The-popup-panel
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-par...
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-create-rules-...
The website could just have been some pages thrown together by someone with a ready made template or a total afterthought...
Their value proposition, good or bad, is on their main focus: an FOSS/clean Android fork.
Not on how privacy friendly their website is...
Simple. Just scroll through the source code.