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Is there any jurisdiction where you actually need a visitor's permission to count pageview stats? Seems pretty far-fetched to me.

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If you want to use some PII to avoid double-countint Ps you do.

You can (mostly) avoid double counting without PII. Track the page view and store in local state that you tracked for this day and that's it. I opted out not mentioning the caveats but that's what the mostly is there for.

Obviously you should not keep any other information with the page view events as to not be able to relate other events with the page view but it's definitely doable

The ePrivacy directive dictates that you need to have consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary to serve the website and its basic functionality. If you were counting pageview stats without persisting any data on the client and without using any identifiers for users, I'd say you don't have to ask for consent, even under GDPR.

I think you forgot a “don’t” in your first sentence.

Agree btw, all these “basic functionality” cookie consent toggles are FUD by marketers who want to confuse you into giving up.

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