>I want to know how many people visited my website. So does every website
You can do that easily without third-party tracking cookies.
You can do that easily without third-party tracking cookies.
I am assuming you need to do client side tracking for static pages though or you need to self host your static page.
(Disclosure: I used to work on ads at Google)
You're talking about the https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... section, right? That's only for sites that are already using third-party cookies for advertising, has to be specifically enabled, and doesn't seem very applicable to our "know how many people visited my website" discussion? But my comment above was too broad, and I've edited it to point here.
> moving from third-party to first-party
GA, back to the Urchin days, has always been built around first-party cookies though.