I’m pretty principled. I block as much tracking as I can in my personal use of the web because what I do isn’t anyone’s business but my own. So, the idea that I have to put trackers on my site is pretty noxious to me, and I have thus far refused.
This isn’t an ad and I don’t want my personal account associated with my business, so no URLs, but I would like to know what you all think: is this something worthwhile that people will appreciate, or am I letting my principles guide me off a cliff because nobody cares that much?
Self-hosted, you say…? Yet another point in favour of Umami, if I’m going with analytics. But you also said:
Exactly this, three times over. I haven’t checked Umami yet but one big friction point for putting analytics on is that my pihole won’t even let me visit the root URLs of most of analytics provider sites, so I’d have to disable blocking just to check the stats, and I don’t like lowering that drawbridge. “A fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded”, sort of sentiment. I really don’t feel comfy putting trackers on that I myself would avoid.
Self-host Umami and set the tracker URL to your custom domain (it gives the URL once up and running) and it won’t get blocked or cause these problems with blacklists. Pretty easy.