Details on privacy and tracking
Lassi Kortela 29 Dec 2020 11:41 UTC
> One note is that the bookmark have tracking image to point to my
> piwik.jcubic.pl analytics (it's now called Matomo), but I'm not sure if it
> works. I just want to know if someone use the bookmark.
>
> Do you know a way to make it work that will not track the users? I can use
> php script that will hash the IP and save it in DB, if hash is already
> there it increase the count for that IP. Is something like this fine?
We should ask Scheme.org's registrant Magnus what he thinks. The current
scheme.org server does track IP addresses in the classical sense that it
keeps an ordinary nginx access log. This is p
In principle, some of the analytics scripts from big-name companies like
Google are also claimed to anonymize their statistics. But in their case
the claim is quite suspect. Big companies often have multiple teams and
departments who don't know about each other's policies, and sometimes
they simply break promises or change policies.