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Of Privacy and Traffic Tracking

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Published on 2020-07-11 21:11:00+02:00 +

Over the past weeks I wondered if anyone actually reads or visits this website. I kind of started worrying that +someone could want to leave some feedback in one way or another. I have plans to handle that, but I also have other +interests right now. I decided to quickly set up a method that will show me that there is no need to worry or hurry up. +

I deployed the very first version today. I think I spent more time deploying it to the server compared to the amount +of time I put into writing it (systemd had some life problems and I was extremely stubborn to preserve 517 day long +uptime). Anyway, don't expect too much from it. +

The goals are quite clear: respect user's privacy and collect useful information. Filter the data as soon as possible +to minimize what is stored. I'm not interested in some big data or hard-core traffic analysis across huge chunks of the +Internet (sup, Google Analytics). I just want to know if there is someone who spent time reading what I wrote.

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Ok, so what data do I collect right now?

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That's all. I don't collect any form of identification. Data that is stored is not even linked to the IP address that +sent it over. That's the point. +

In future I would like to minimize data collection even further. I already mentioned early filtering, but there are +also some other improvements I would like to have. The approaches are quite naive. For example, time user spent looking +at the page is calculated as time from load event to beforeunload event. +

Source code is available via public git repository. +

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