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Can the creator /user/bill_yang explain this contradiction in the readme? It claims to support tracking unique users, but then immediately afterwards claims not to track users. Do you mean that you don't do any user tracking by default?

> Key Features

> - All key web analytics metrics including sessions, unique users, pageviews, bounce rate, session duration

> - No cookies or user tracking - GDPR & CCPA compliant



the industry has decided that unique users can be done without being tracking. you can decide differently. Often times how they do it is some combination of

- Hashing IPs with other data to form a non-reversible UUID

- Not tracking across multiple host domains

- Not setting cookies or storing any information in the browser




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