Review: Piwik Analytics Software

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"The solution was obvious, remove GA from my site. However, I didn't want to lose the valuable information that it provides me with. Also, I don't have a problem with site owners collecting data that can help them, just with them sharing it with 3rd parties such as Google, who then build it into their larger profiling efforts. A quick search turned up Piwik which aims to provide a full featured GA replacement that you can run on your own server. Because site owners run their own instances, they remain in charge of their tracking of users, retain ownership of the data and best of all don't give any data to Google.

"With the aim of responsible and unobtrusive tracking in mind I've added a page to my site to allow users to Opt-out of the Piwik tracking by means of a cookie. The link is also accessible from the sidebar under the copyright notice. I'm afraid some of the text on that page is pretty difficult to see with my current theme, but I'm working on this. For now just uncheck the check box to opt-out."

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