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-analyt…

[image] Matomo Analytics theme-component discourse2 Summary Matomo Analytics is a script to enable Matomo analytics on Discourse. hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-matomo-analytics open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s gui…

Hi Michael, thanks for sharing this helpful post. I will again refer to it after I get my own discourse up and running. What I was asking (sorry if I was not clear) is why discourse itself does not use Matomo on disccourse.org itself, instead of google analytics. That is why I asked this question i…

[image] Bretty: why discourse itself does not use Matomo on disccourse.org itself Matomo is based on PHP, which means you’d have to prepare the environment and then care about this. Also, more people use Google Analitycs instead of Matomo. Discourse already has its statistics.

Responses so far are not to the question I asked. :anguished: One non-response even received 6 likes. I am disappointed after posting my first question here. “Does your reply improve the conversation in some way?” is missing here. Perhaps nobody wants to answer my actual question, or I have post…

Perhaps not as many people care about this issue as you do? That does not mean you are wrong in any way, it just means that other people may not necessarily share your concerns or goals.

[image] Bretty: One non-response even received 6 likes. Maybe more people misunderstood your question…

[image] codinghorror: it just means that other people may not necessarily share your concerns or goals. Perhaps. Anyway, the wonderful thing about discourse is that it is very configurable open source software and so none of us have to use it identically. I won’t have to take privacy away fro…

Exactly, and it’s not like Google Analytics is forced on anyone… certainly not by Discourse.

@codinghorror , I’m not sure you understood my question? Of course anyone who installs discourse is free not to activate g-a. But google analytics is forced on everyone who does not actively defend against it on this website, discourse.org That was my concern as a new user and why I posted in meta…

I suspect you’re right. I didn’t understand either until your latest post. [image] codinghorror: Perhaps not as many people care about this issue as you do? This probably still applies. Many people don’t care (me for instance) and those that do are free to protect themselves as you have. I …

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