Why not? They’re already owning npm, don’t they?

My best guess would be he’s using their CloudFront CDN stuff, which is pretty expensive. But that and 200k lambda calls still don’t really add up to 80$. 🤔

Aa far as I know you can turn it off on iOS if you want to. And all those Lineage (etc.) users that don’t trust Google with their Android phones also don’t get this feature in the first place, since they don’t have the play store on their devices.

I’m sorry but I don’t really see a dystopian nightmare here. I just think both companies try to help.

Then I misunderstood you, I’m sorry. It still is MIT licensed though, so anyone could fork it or help them make is easier to self host. In the meantime maybe this helps.

Followup: Resuming Elixir by self-hosting plausible analytics

Then go host it yourself if you don’t trust them? Nobody is stoping you. 🤷

Also: Your statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point

Go make a suggestion, maybe it’ll get added over time. ^^

I guess you’d have to pay to use their hosted version. I don’t think you have to pay them anything, if you get it working on your own infrastructure. But beware:

At the moment we don’t provide support for easily self-hosting the code. Currently, the purpose of keeping the code open-source is to be transparent with the community about how we collect and process data.

(from their README)