Articles on privacy
Every GhostPane article about privacy — 6 in total.
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Do you need a cookie banner for analytics?
Consent law is triggered by storing something on a visitor's device, not by measuring traffic. Here is what that distinction actually means, and when analytics can run without a banner.
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What owning your analytics data actually means
Self-hosted, data ownership and no lock-in are used loosely enough to be marketing. Here are the four questions that separate the real version from the phrase.
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Safari, ITP and what actually happens to your analytics
Intelligent Tracking Prevention caps first-party cookies, blocks third-party ones outright, and strips some referrers. Cookieless measurement sidesteps most of it, but not all.
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How cookieless analytics counts visitors without storing anything
The daily-rotating salted hash, explained properly: what it can measure, what it deliberately cannot, and why the limitation is the feature.
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Is Google Analytics legal in the EU?
Data protection authorities in Austria, France, Italy and Denmark all ruled against Google Analytics. Then the Data Privacy Framework arrived. Here is where that leaves you.
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Google Analytics alternatives that don't need a consent banner
A practical comparison of the analytics tools that run without storing anything on a visitor's device — what each one costs, where the data lives, and what you give up.