I think the important distinction is that trust will be either first-party or third-party, and most of your users will never think about it.
If I'm using your site or service I've already decided to trust you somewhat. Self-hosted analytics is just an additional baby step.
If you put a third-party resource on your site (and most of us do) then that third-party is going to have their own entirely separate terms & conditions, which you as webmaster have little or no control over.
It's down to whether you (and/or your users) are okay with farming out visitor privacy to a third-party. Once that question is satisfied it's just a question of performance.
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I think the important distinction is that trust will be either first-party or third-party, and most of your users will never think about it.
If I'm using your site or service I've already decided to trust you somewhat. Self-hosted analytics is just an additional baby step.
If you put a third-party resource on your site (and most of us do) then that third-party is going to have their own entirely separate terms & conditions, which you as webmaster have little or no control over.
It's down to whether you (and/or your users) are okay with farming out visitor privacy to a third-party. Once that question is satisfied it's just a question of performance.