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Privacy-focused is not a synonym for good.

The phrase is on every landing page. The test is: cookies or not, replay or not, where the bytes live, and whether the vendor’s other product is advertising. Cookie Free Analytics is cookieless, no replay, hosted in Frankfurt. Unique visitors are HMAC’d with a pepper and a salt we delete at midnight — not a cookie, not a cross-day id. Engineers: the method.

• Want the same job, open source — Plausible or Umami.
• Want GA on your own servers — Matomo.
• Want recordings — that is not privacy-first. See Clarity and Hotjar.

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What does privacy-focused mean for Cookie Free Analytics?

No cookies, no fingerprint, no session replay, no ads graph. Same-day visitors are HMAC’d with a pepper and a salt we delete at midnight. Pageviews sit in EU Postgres.

Is this a Plausible alternative?

Same cookieless job. Cheaper at the published volumes we date, events included, beacons in Frankfurt. Honest page: /vs/plausible.

Is this a Clarity or Hotjar alternative?

No. Those film people. Cookie Free Analytics counts pageviews. Use them when you have consent to watch; use us when you want a count.