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Self-hosted analytics and the infrastructure cost of privacy
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2026
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Isn't matomo like, literally fire-and-forget?
But also, my main draw from this, is that the simplest solution to analytics is to just not need to profile people (let alone your interlocutors) in the first place. Just like with traffic and transportation problems.