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I have a couple of small websites. Rather than inflict Google Analytics on my occasional visitors or pay for this, I just do without.

Besides, I think the only stance that genuinely respects the user's rights is the one that says no data should be collected, ever.

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We collect total page views, total uniques, browsers, countries, device types and goal hits in aggregate.

Privacy started becoming more important when we started seeing the gross tactics companies used to identify you & link all of your actions / history to you. Fathom doesn't do this and never will.

Can't that information be gathered from http server logs?

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