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Simple Analytics Blog
blog.simpleanalytics.com · Company blog · on HN since 2019
Simple Analytics, a privacy-focused web analytics company, blogs about GDPR rulings, Google Analytics, EU data transfers and its own business.
What HN saysHN commenters link it in privacy and EU data-law threads; one questions its move of servers to Iceland as not matching a real threat model.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics2 people · 231 points · first shared 2021 · 102 comments on HN
- 2Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking2 people · 221 points · first shared 2022 · 128 comments on HN
- 3We moved our servers to Iceland2 people · 190 points · first shared 2019 · 85 comments on HN
- 4EU moving closer to Facebook ban2 people · 129 points · first shared 2022 · 103 comments on HN
- 5Danish Data Protection Agency bans Google Workspace for Municipalities2 people · 66 points · first shared 2022 · 27 comments on HN
- 6Will Google Analytics be banned in the EU?2 people · 13 points · first shared 2022 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Google to sunset Universal Analytics in 20232 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8How we hit our $30k ARR milestone1 people · 261 points · first shared 2019 · 20 comments on HN
- 9Practical privacy tips for your business1 people · 184 points · first shared 2020 · 32 comments on HN
- 10EU-US privacy shield 2.0 is again a political show1 people · 65 points · first shared 2022 · 37 comments on HN
- 11Denmark starting to ban Google products1 people · 27 points · first shared 2022 · 16 comments on HN
- 12French data protection update: Google Analytics is (still) illegal1 people · 20 points · first shared 2022 · 5 comments on HN
- 13Privacy friendly Simple Analytics hit $100k ARR milestone1 people · 11 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14How the internet ended up in this privacy mess (and how we can get out of it)1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 15Visitor Time on Page calculation by Google Analytics doesn't make sense1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · 3 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
buglunch · 2022-07-15
This is a great blogpost from simpleanalytics https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/denmark-bans-google-workspace-for-mun…
AdriaanvRossum · 2022-02-10
I understand your concern. It's also an analytics service. But I believe we are very different [1]. We deliberately collect very little data [2].
There is a big difference between "a person's surfing data" or "surfing data of all visitors combined". That's what we promise with Simple Analytics.
[1] https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-simple-analytics-is-a-great-alter…
[2] https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/what-we-collect
vanderZwan · 2022-07-19
> There is a risk Europeans won’t be able to use Facebook after the Irish data protection agency (DPC) doubles down on stopping data transfer between the US and the E.U.
https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/eu-moving-closer-to-facebook-ban
I dunno, "stopping data transfer" sounds like a ban by another name to me.
tyingq · 2021-05-03
They are using your latter example, here's the page: https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/with-ga-script
It is hurting the score. The GA script is NOT in the <head>.
DyslexicAtheist · 2019-11-12
it was pretty strange when SimpleAnalytics announced[0][1] they're moving servers to Iceland to protect users.
this means SimpleAnalytics doesn't understand their threat model which is a shame because the industry could deal with some disruption: ("Simple Analytics Inc, FVEY's and Hanlon's Razor" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/simple-analytics-inc-fveys-hanlons-razo…
[0] https://twitter.com/AdriaanvRossum/status/1076194963602505728
[1] https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland