Typical Metadata That WhatsApp And Others Collect And Two Open Source Analytic Services You Can Use

Web analytics can be useful for content creators to better focus their outputs but where they are abused, shared or sold to 3rd parties then that can be a bad thing. This video demonstrates some of the data that can leak from just visiting websites, whilst services that track your presence, mobile location, whom you are communicating with, etc can be worse as they have more personal data.

The open source tools here collect metadata first-hand and do not share with anyone else. If you need to collect analytics for yourself these can be used instead of Google Analytics, StatCounter, etc.

Matomo - https://matomo.org/ AWStats - http://www.awstats.org/

Chapters: Metadata and Cookies 00:00 AWStats 03:40 Matomo 09:05 Matomo Search Engines Keywords 14:00 Matomo Visitor Info 14:57 Matomo Visitor Behaviour 19:37 Matomo Visitor Acquisition 23:13 Matomo Goals 25:00 Matomo Plugins 26:01 Matomo Settings 29:26 Matomo Dashboard Widgets 33:40 Aggregated Metadata 34:36