Consentless – A minimalist, privacy-preserving traffic counter
Several years ago I started tracking my own website stats using a minimal counter that preserves user privacy. I wrote about that in my article, Private Analytics and the Raspberry Pi in my Bedroom. The original version was a PHP script. It's been working well for several years, but I had some hardware trouble with the Raspberry Pi. So, this week I took those concepts and wrote Consentless as a Go application to replace that original script and I created some initial documentation.
Consentless – A minimalist, privacy-preserving traffic counter launched on September 12, 2025 with 10 votes, #1,170 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Consentless is a minimalist website traffic counter built as a Go application that tracks visitor statistics while preserving user privacy. It requires no user consent and was developed as a replacement for a long-running PHP-based analytics system. The tool is designed for website owners who want basic traffic insights without collecting extensive personal data or relying on complex third-party services.
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From the sources
Consentless is an open source, minimalist, and privacy-preserving traffic counter. It's designed to help with compliance with modern privacy laws including CCPA/CPRA (California), UCPA (Utah), GDPR (EU), and similar without requiring consent. It does so by tracking only impressions on URLs and not IP addresses or other personally identifiable information (PII). Time is tracked only to minute precision to further reduce the ability to pinpoint users with supplemental data. It can be used as your sole tracking mechanism or it can be used as supplemental tracking for visitors that did not consent to your other tracking methods. It's minimal and lightning fast. The client is four lines of JS…from consentless.joeldare.com
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