Comment to 'Integrations Hell'
  • Leaving Google and Facebook behind makes perfect sense - at least from a European and GDPR perspective. They cannot be trusted. The time is with UNA. Privacy concerns are on top of people's mind and you cannot login with e.g. facebook and have your privacy preserved.

    Stay independent

    • Correct. We are actually now working on alternative to Google Analytics for UNA and will eventually weed out Google Maps and ReCaptcha. Without social logins that would make UNA google-free. GDPR-compliant tools are the priority for us now. 

      • Yeah I noticed that Google Maps API is no longer free. OpenGeo? geoext.org (Still not allowed to post links - lol)
        I think Metropolitan networks like FB makes people loose ability of social connection in real life and feel lost in the mass of meat. I think we need to take a step back and think in village concepts, where the existence of individuals come to matter. People gain a greater sense of connection and purpose in small communities.

        • We use Matomo (Open Source) instead of Analytics. It is much better, more flexible and we are not feeding googles revenue stream for nothing.