[HN Gopher] Show HN: Counter - Simple and Free Web Analytics
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       Show HN: Counter - Simple and Free Web Analytics
        
       Author : ihucos
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-03-13 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (counter.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (counter.dev)
        
       | softskunk wrote:
       | oof, i can't load the page because it's blocked by my Pi-Hole.
        
         | paulgb wrote:
         | I noticed the other day that blocklists really don't like the
         | word "counter". I had a bunch of simple demos, one of which was
         | a counter, and it was the only one that didn't work. Turned out
         | u-block was preventing it from loading.
        
         | ThePinion wrote:
         | Same. The whole domain shows up in the list. I have too many
         | lists right now to know which is blocking it. Does Pi-Hole have
         | an easy way to see which list a domain comes from?
        
       | zapt02 wrote:
       | Looks cool. Any chance you would provide a docker-compose.yml
       | file for self hosting? Right now it's not really simple to do so.
        
       | shermozle wrote:
       | How the hell are you getting unique visitors without cookies or
       | IP addresses? I call bullshit.
        
         | schemescape wrote:
         | From the GitHub page:
         | 
         | > Counting unique users is achieved with a combination of
         | relying on sessionStorage facilities, the browser's cache
         | mechanism and inspecting the referrer. Using this technique
         | considerably reduces the complexity and load on the server
         | while improving data privacy at the cost of knowing less about
         | users. We can't and don't want to be able to connect single
         | page views to an user identity.
        
         | e-clinton wrote:
         | Guid stored in local storage?
        
           | worksonmine wrote:
           | Tomato tomato. A httpsonly cookie (as a tracking cookie
           | should be) is just as visible as localstorage. So sure,
           | technically correct not a cookie but does the name matter
           | when the result is identical.
           | 
           | "Hey, I got an idea how we get rid of those pesky cookie
           | banners, let's drop the cookies, no.. wait.. hear me out. We
           | store the id... in localstorage! Brilliant!" _POW_
           | _Confetti_.
           | 
           | It's cookies.
        
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