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I’m sure that GitHub certainly has analytics; they just don’t use third-party analytics. This means that either they’ve built their own tool or are self hosting someone else’s. I imagine that GitHub has some amount of internal tooling here out of necessity, e.g for metrics about how people use GitHub over SSH.

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However they cannot use data that allows to identify an user (such as an IP address) in their analytics, unless the user has granted them explicit consent to use that data for the purpose of analytics.

So my understanding is that there is a big difference between this and "they just don't use third-party analytics".

It would be super nice if they clarified this in the blog post. Maybe by adding something like "We do not use personal data in our analytics".

Or they just send the data to the 3rd parties on the back-end.

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