# Protect user privacy by using Matomo, dumping Google Analytics?

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** analytics\
**Created:** [10 בספטמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/protect-user-privacy-by-using-matomo-dumping-google-analytics/96837 "2018-09-10T08:50:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bretty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bretty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bretty)\
**Post date:** [10 בספטמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/protect-user-privacy-by-using-matomo-dumping-google-analytics/96837/1 "2018-09-10T08:50:58Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been becoming familiar with the discourse community. I am considering setting up discourse for two completely different communities. I have slowly become familiar with it on other sites like letsencrypt.

I was disappointed that my tracker-blockers reported discourse is using [google-analytics.com](http://google-analytics.com)

Of course, I’m protected from that intrusiveness because I use a blocker, but not everyone will be. And not everyone wants to end up in a Google database, even if it claims that tracking data won’t leak into other divisions.

> **[Privacy-first analytics you can trust - Analytics Platform - Matomo](https://matomo.org)**
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> Popular analytics tools can miss up to 40% of traffic. Matomo delivers accurate, GDPR-compliant analytics with full data ownership in a platform teams can set up in minutes.

Has discourse never considered using f/loss Matomo (formerly Piwik)  
instead of Google Analytics? Nothing came up in a search on any of these analytics before I posted this question. Matomo is a pretty decent product these days.

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