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wgason Website analytics are breaking the law

They added it as a banner I presume to highlight this at this time

“Fathom is a Canadian company, and all of your EU traffic never leaves German-owned servers.”

wgason Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Illegal

This is why we went with Fathom as their edge locations are isolated regional (EU). So if I understand it correctly, core hosting is AWS, but on the edge locations run by an EU company in the EU process the data and remove the sensitive data.

For me, it makes no sense when companies like plausible say they have EU based hosting when they pay for hosting from a US-only company (DigitalOcean)