Marko Saric
markosaric.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2019
Marko Saric, co-founder of Plausible Analytics, writes about web analytics, privacy, Google AMP, GDPR consent, and running an independent blog.
What HN saysHN commenters debate his posts, with one calling the author a SaaS marketing expert and another defending his privacy-focused credibility.
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ec109685 · 2020-04-08
Yeah, this article was submitted by a SaaS marketing expert: https://markosaric.com/
There are some misleading parts of the article, which makes it even worse (e.g. by default Google uses the data from GA to profile users).
markosaric · 2020-01-27
My one is https://markosaric.com.
Writing regularly on a variety of topics that I'm working on/interested in including online marketing, ethical web and such.
dang · 2020-05-27
Changed from https://markosaric.com/ above. Thanks!
wizzwizz4 · 2021-05-17
It is. I've had several discussions with Marko Saric (co-founder of Plausible), and I doubt he'd've let this slide even if his co-founder was Mark Zuckerberg. The author of “Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked”[0] is hardly the sort of person to secretly track users in violation of the GDPR.
Which part of Plausible's source code[1] is doing the tracking, exactly?
[0]: https://markosaric.com/gdpr-consent/
[1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics
shenberg · 2021-02-26
Bots. Spam ruins it for everyone. Cloudflare, for example, provide an analytics platform based off of logs, but it overreports visits by a huge amount for most cases because javascript is a good filter for most bots.
Here's Cloudflare's page on why there is a discrepancy between their numbers and GA-type services: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037684111-Why-do-m…
And here's a blog post by a self-hosted-analytics provider who shows exact numbers from his personal blog: https://markosaric.com/cloudflare-analytics-review/
He has a stake in the matter, but it's also such a huge discrepancy that I'm guessing is hard to fake. Anecdotally, friends I have with small blogs mirror this experience.
michael-ax · 2020-07-13
says: https://markosaric.com/speed-up-wordpress/
>> Steps I took to make my site speedy and green
>>> To not add much additional footprint, I’ve decided not to use Google Analytics, ....
.. this is too weird for me.
jefftk · 2020-07-07
This looks like an ePrivacy (cookie) consent dialog, and not a GDPR dialog? https://markosaric.com/wp-content/uploads/gdpr-banner-on-mobile.jpg It's asking for consent to store cookies "to power statistics".
dheera · 2020-05-27
Trying to submit https://markosaric.com/google-amp/ results in getting redirect to this page.
Trying to submit https://markosaric.com/google-amp/?dummy=234 results in "Unknown or expired link"
IvyMike · 2020-05-27
Looks like this was the intended URL: https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
Centrino · 2020-02-14
You’re linking to a home page. Link to the article is https://markosaric.com/google-amp/