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Back out there in the real world, there is skepticism that people are really spending more time on #Mastodon and driving traffic etc.

This is impeding some take up.

And one BIG reason is that Mastodon hides HTTP referrer information for privacy reasons, so you cannot see Mastodon traffic in your web stats.

I agree with this decision – but I want to warm about this consequence, as I suspect organisations are underestimating the shift that has taken place. #webstats #analytics
I’ve considered whether to put tracker code into links to sort this out (we haven’t).

Where I work, we use #Matomo so this is fairly benign, it isn’t cookie based and logs are removed etc. We do as much as we can to make it privacy friendly.

But that isn’t everyone.

Organisations will want to undeerstand their reach if they start using #fediverse platforms, and they will mostly use #GoogleAnalytics.

How should users and orgs approach this? Are there any good solutions?
- A #Mastodon instance *could* decide not to accept Toots that include #GoogleAnalytics URLs. Have any done so?
https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal