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I have discovered that Goatcounter is in the list of blocked domains:
specifically gc.zgo.at in the "easy privacy" blocklist.

I understand it seems at first glance that Goatcounter is a tracker and is thus privacy-invading but this is not true in my opinion.
https://www.goatcounter.com/why only gathers anonymous data (it pretty much counts the amount of people that visit a page) and it is open source.
Everything Goatcounter does can pretty much be done by counting sessions on a server. I use it as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics on my blog so I am sad to see it is blocked as if it were privacy invading. If any tracking at all is too much in your opinion I would understand that it would still be blocked but I hope that you can see that it is a project that cares about users privacy and should thus be exempt in my opinion.

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Post by fanboy »

We cover all tracking scripts, similar to other opensource trackers (plausible, matomo). Regardless of motive, we treat every tracking script equaly.

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Okay, I don't necessarily agree but I understand that you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere.

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