Simple Analytics, a privacy-focused web analytics company, blogs about GDPR rulings, Google Analytics, EU data transfers and its own business.
HN 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.
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-razor-joachim-bauernberger/).
[0] https://twitter.com/AdriaanvRossum/status/1076194963602505728
[1] https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-we-moved-our-servers-to-iceland
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-alternative-to-google-analytics#1-differences-in-core-values-privacy-first-vs-profit-first
[2] https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/what-we-collect
> 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.
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>.
This is a great blogpost from simpleanalytics https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/denmark-bans-google-workspace-for-municipalities