For my interest, counting the pageviews, 
and to get to know something about whether content is interesting,
I'm using a statistical tool, 'clicky'.(1)

According to the company and my settings,
IP's are anonymized, and there is no 'personal' information stored.

Neither cookies nor intrusive technics are involved.

I'd compare that with keeping track of visitors in a museum.
There is no personalization necessary, 
but some general information is useful,
the estimated age, or how long someone stays at which place.

According to several texts, since there is no personal information stored, 
there's no popup to ask for resistance or cooperation neccessary.

However, there is the option to 'opt out' of any statistic by 'clicky'.(2)
This will download a cookie, which prevents any counting by that company.

Since I don't have access to the server logs at this server,
I resort to this option.

I'm not interested to go into the details,
but for technical reasons any webserver needs to store ip's, though.
To remember, where to send responses, and to survive attacks. (dos,..)

Did read through all those paperwork at clicky again..
So, they do not store personal information,
nor sell any information to other companies.

Their business model seems to be payed accounts, 
needed for higher traffic or more detailed statistics.

Seems to be way more fair than google.
I won't set an affiliate link, however,
this is a private homepage.

To contact me, please open an issue
at the repository of codeberg.(3)