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Any time I hear about a hot new analytics company, my first thought is always: how do I opt out?

Freshpaint, how do I opt out of your data collection? Now, into the future, and also for any historical data that you might have collected about me.

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We respect Do Not Track. If you have Do Not Track enabled, we won't collect any data from you. Unfortunately Do Not Track has a number of fundamental issues and I'm not aware of any better way to signal you want to opt out.

You really shouldn’t support DNT, it’s a useless “standard” that’s half-deprecated (Safari is removing support in 2020) and will potentially introduce significant bias into your customer’s data.

100% this. Hopefully by the end of the decade data collection will default to opt-in rather than opt-out.

No, it will just be all server side and you won't have any choice.

Good, server-side data is harder to fingerprint and track.

It’s pretty trivially easy to set a first-party cookie or ID for a user in local storage for non-logged-in users.

Of course for SaaS all product usage is logged-in so fingerprinting doesn’t really apply.

You can't set or read local storage from the server. As for first-party cookies, not only can those be blocked, as they don't let the server track across sites, which is the most annoying part.

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