There's another benefit in self-hosting, which is that Google will stop tracking...

drummer · on Dec 4, 2020

Do they actually track users based on their fonts being loaded from their site?

rendall · on Dec 4, 2020

Let's think it through together. What can be tracked from that?

IP address, which can be linked to an individual. Origin / Referer. Is that it? Does google analytics add request headers?

So, at least "this individual visited this site at this time"

cutemonster · on Dec 6, 2020

And also, that you were at home (or the office or wherever the ip addr is) at that particular time.

So, also, location and daily habits, where you go and so.

(The tracking company probably has you associated with a bunch of ip addresses and with a bit fingerprinting they'll know it's you at the ip at that time)