I agree wholeheartedly with this, and also toss simpleanalytics into the ring. They explicitly advertise the ability to bypass blockers and set up custom subdomains on their frontpage, which IMO _the person that is blocking it does not wish to send telemetry_, forcing them to do it is both a forced opt-in and rude as hell.<p>If you are going to try to turn a profit by yelling about how you're so respectful and compliant, maybe not intentionally try to bypass end-users' explicit, human-set, consensual opt-out with your forced shady opt-in.<p>You are not being "privacy friendly", you are refusing the user's explicit "no consent, please don't do this" and forcing yourself on them anyway.<p>--<p>An unrelated note on technical infrastructure: many of these projects are EU based and proudly tell everyone that they are EU based.<p>Unfortunately, for example - see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act</a>:<p>- Plausible hosts on DigitalOcean<p>- Plausible uses Cloudflare<p>- Simpleanalytics uses Cloudflare<p>- Fathom is on AWS