https://ftrcrp.org/tags/web/Recent content in Web on FTRCRPHugonb-NO2026 FTRCRPSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ftrcrp.org/guides/self-hosted-analytics-goatcounter/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ftrcrp.org/guides/self-hosted-analytics-goatcounter/<p>If you publish anything, you want to know whether anyone is reading it. That is a reasonable thing to want, and it is not the same as wanting to know <em>who</em> is reading it.</p> <p>Google Analytics does not make that distinction. Put it on your site and you have quietly conscripted every visitor into somebody else&rsquo;s advertising business, in exchange for a dashboard you look at once a week. You get numbers. They get people. It is not a trade most publishers would make consciously if it were stated that plainly, and it is the reason several European data protection authorities have found the arrangement difficult to square with GDPR.</p>