Almost 40% of HN users block Google Analytics, how we learned to adapt to it (thirtybees.com)

"I understand not wanting to be tracked, but they should just record the visits without any identifiable information"

I find it very uncomfortable that the author's solution is not just to recommend, but to implement for his platform's users, a fallback that circumvents the block and still feeds data to Google Analytics. Using Piwik grants the site owner the data they need, while respecting the visitor's choice to block Google.