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It seems so.

On the other hand I outsourced my blog tracking to Google Analytics. I am guilty of the same crime.

Do you do that too?

I have now removed Google Analytics code in my blog until I will find an alternative that keeps my visitors data more private: https://github.com/emilis/emilis.github.com/commit/ad40981a4...

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Have you seen Piwik Analytics[1]? It's an open source web analytics app (much like Google's) that you can run on your own server.

[1] http://piwik.org/

Or why do you even need to track? I have disabled tracking in my web server and I am not really feeling missing out on the user statistics on my puny blog.

There's also the possibility of saving the data for a shorter time period if you really need it, like to detect attacks and such.

Tracking actions not related to specific individuals is still extremely valuable information.

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