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Remove Analytics image from README #1000

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Marcono1234 opened this issue Feb 24, 2024 · 0 comments
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Remove Analytics image from README #1000

Marcono1234 opened this issue Feb 24, 2024 · 0 comments

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Marcono1234 commented Feb 24, 2024

Hello,
it seems the README contains an image for analytics (originally added by 8fb322a):

[![Analytics](https://ga-beacon.appspot.com/UA-54945131-1/jsonpath/index)](https://github.com/igrigorik/ga-beacon)

Are you actually still using this, or can this be removed? I assume many users would appreciate not being tracked by third-party sites while browsing your repository.

Actually, that analytics image is probably not working as desired at the moment anyway because GitHub is caching the image and serving it from https://camo.githubusercontent.com/... instead. There might be ways to clear the cached image, but that still does not seem suitable for analytics.

Additionally, GitHub itself offers to maintainers the option to see traffic for a repository, including information about clones, which files are browsed and from where the visitors arrived to the repository, see GitHub documentation. Potentially that is much more useful than what third-party analytics could provide.

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