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Disabling Analytics and AdSense is very easy - just enable DNT on your browser. We haven't found any acceptable alternatives, although building our own analytics software[1] is on the roadmap.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/118



Have you considered Piwik?

http://piwik.org/


Yes, but after evaluating it we decided not to use it. Also, we have a strict no-PHP policy.


Have you decided to not use it only because it's written in PHP or are there any other reasons?


There are other reasons, but PHP is a pretty big one. If we're going to use anything other than Google Analytics, we want to integrate it pretty deeply with our frontend. We were thinking of making a Flask extension that would capture all non-personal information without having to serve analytics code to the client. Also, as far as I know, Piwik does not support DNT.


Piwik actually does support DNT and also can process server logs.

http://piwik.org/privacy/

http://piwik.org/log-analytics/




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