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Marko Saric
Personal blog · markosaric.com/blog · on HN as markosaricwebproductivity
Marko Saric's personal blog at markosaric.com covers web and productivity. Since 2019, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marko Saric's posts on privacy-friendly web analytics, cookie consent and Google AMP. Comments mostly fix submitted URLs, while others dispute the GDPR framing and call parts of the analytics article misleading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
- How to fight back against Google AMP4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
- 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-13
- How to keep blogging alive and thriving3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-24
- Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-06
- Cloudflare Analytics review2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-20
- I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
- How to de-Google-ify your website2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Time to share this one again before it's too late: How to fight back against Google AMP https://markosaric.com/google-amp/ And the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733
Comment linking /google-amp/
on “Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results”Submitted How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer as a story · 1238 points
HN discussionIt is ironic considering that 7 out of top 10 most used third party connections on websites are owned by Google. So you can see why there must be some kind of internal struggle at Google. They understand the value of a faster web but they also cannot go after the main cause of the slow web. And this is how technology such as AMP gets invented and makes things worse. https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
Comment linking /google-amp/
on “Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?”Submitted I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple as a story · 679 points
HN discussionTime to share this post one more time: How to fight back against Google AMP https://markosaric.com/google-amp/ And the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733
Comment linking /google-amp/
on “Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?”Submitted Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked as a story · 651 points
HN discussionI have a personal blog at https://markosaric.com/ . I'm a digital marketer. I've recently gone freelance and I'm trying to find better ways to do website/startup marketing in the world of all the privacy regulations and big tech companies controlling a lot of the web while an increasing number of people not liking all the ads and all the tracking. So I've posted about topics such as: How to promote your SaaS using e…
Comment linking /firefox/
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics as a story · 187 points
HN discussionBots. Spam ruins it for everyone. Cloudflare, for example, provide an analytics platform based off of logs, but it overreports visits by a huge amount for most cases because javascript is a good filter for most bots. Here's Cloudflare's page on why there is a discrepancy between their numbers and GA-type services: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36003768411... And here's a blog post by a self-hosted…
Comment linking /cloudflare-analytics-review/
on “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast”Submitted Cloudflare Analytics review as a story · 163 points
HN discussionThis looks like an ePrivacy (cookie) consent dialog, and not a GDPR dialog? https://markosaric.com/wp-content/uploads/gdpr-banner-on-mob... It's asking for consent to store cookies "to power statistics".
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/gdpr-banner-on-mobile.jpg
on “Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked”Submitted How to fight back against Google AMP as a story · 83 points
HN discussionYeah, this article was submitted by a SaaS marketing expert: https://markosaric.com/ There are some misleading parts of the article, which makes it even worse (e.g. by default Google uses the data from GA to profile users).
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on “An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website”Submitted Please get your parents off Facebook as a story · 41 points
HN discussionMy one is https://markosaric.com . Writing regularly on a variety of topics that I'm working on/interested in including online marketing, ethical web and such.
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI've gone down the Google-free rabbit hole myself lately. Being Facebook-free is so much easier than Google-free but here's what I switched to: Chrome browser -> Firefox Google search -> DuckDuckGo (StartPage for specific searches that DuckDuckGo doesn't do well at) Gmail -> ProtonMail Maps -> OpenStreetMap Translate -> DeepL Analytics -> removed them from my site completely so no tracking scripts at all Details: ht…
Comment linking /surveillance-capitalism/
on “I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo”Submitted 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionsays: https://markosaric.com/speed-up-wordpress/ >> Steps I took to make my site speedy and green >>> To not add much additional footprint, I’ve decided not to use Google Analytics, .... .. this is too weird for me.
Comment linking /speed-up-wordpress/
on “13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics”Submitted 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionChanged from https://markosaric.com/ above. Thanks!
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on “How to fight back against Google AMP”Submitted How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTrying to submit https://markosaric.com/google-amp/ results in getting redirect to this page. Trying to submit https://markosaric.com/google-amp/?dummy=234 results in "Unknown or expired link"
Comment linking /google-amp/?dummy=234
on “How to fight back against Google AMP”Submitted Remove Disqus from Your Site as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooks like this was the intended URL: https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
Comment linking /google-amp/
on “How to fight back against Google AMP”Submitted Cloudflare Analytics review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt is. I've had several discussions with Marko Saric (co-founder of Plausible), and I doubt he'd've let this slide even if his co-founder was Mark Zuckerberg. The author of “Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked”[0] is hardly the sort of person to secretly track users in violation of the GDPR. Which part of Plausible's source code[1] is doing the tracking, exactly? [0]: https://markosaric.com/gdpr-cons…
Comment linking /gdpr-consent/
on “Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics”Submitted How to keep blogging alive and thriving as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou’re linking to a home page. Link to the article is https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
Comment linking /google-amp/
on “How to fight back against Google AMP”Submitted You can help keep blogging alive and thriving as a story · 3 points
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