Are self-hosted analytics GDPR friendly?

Hi HN!

Customers kept emailing me asking whether my self-hosted analytics platform is GDPR-friendly as I don't mention GDPR anywhere on the landing page as a benefit. I wrote a short blog post describing why even self-hosted or "privacy-friendly" platforms can be GDPR-hostile.

My main concern is that people seem to think that a platform is either ok or not ok, but the truth is that it depends on you and what data you decide to track and who do you share it with.

I noticed a strong polarization lately where customers or even analytics providers clearly define something as good or bad (eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994183 ).

I think that marketing an analytics platform as GDPR-friendly just hides the complexity of the problem and could make the webmasters more careless about their data. Or am I wrong?