Comment on Looking for simple analytics (similar to Plausible) that supports cookies
smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
If you still want to respect user privacy, your analytics software could use the port of the connection instead of IP as the identifier. It would be perfectly fine for determining simultaneus users from the same IP, but not invasive enough to monitor an individuals behaviour. Don’t ask me which analytics software supports that. I’d grab the data from the http logs if it was me and use a tool like goaccess.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Each request to the site may use a different port though (if the keepalive times out).
Unfortunately this has the same issue with multiple people sharing an IP appearing to be one user.
Another major use case I thought of are people stuck on CGNAT. It’s easily possible for tens of thousands of customers to share just dozens of public IP addresses. Unfortunately some providers are rolling out CGNAT instead of IPv6 even though it causes so many problems.