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Wednesday 14 October 20261 story

Practices / Analytics

The blocklists carry GoatCounter's custom domains, and EasyPrivacy's ping rule catches cross-domain counting

GoatCounter's FAQ warns that custom domains will not prevent adblockers from recognizing it; AdGuard's DNS filter enumerates more than 230 of them, a generic ping rule catches cross-domain counting, and first-party or server-side counting is what remains.

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Monday 28 September 20261 story

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Genug Analytics is web analytics you ask, not read: one Node process, one SQLite file

A self-hosted analytics tool (MIT) that takes a script tag, stores events in one SQLite file, and answers questions through Claude, Cursor or any MCP client — thirty-two tools, no cookies by default, and a cockpit for when you would rather look.

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Monday 21 September 20261 story

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GoatCounter counted 200 humans where GoAccess counted 2,000 visitors

Vincent Bernat replaced log analysis with self-hosted GoatCounter and a client that only counts after a real interaction, which cut a reported 2,000 daily visitors down to fewer than 200 people.

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