Saric: Open source is essential for privacy-first software to build trust
Marco Saric · Google Analytics Alternative Adds $23k in MRR in 12 Months, Open sourced! · May 23, 2021 · at 8:58
Marco Saric explains why Plausible Analytics chose to build an open-source product in contrast to Google Analytics.
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“I think open source and privacy first, they kind of go together hand in hand. I think if you want to be able to be transparent and trustworthy, you gotta show what you're doing, and kind of, you cannot be, like, Google, our biggest competitor, Google Analytics is like a black box, You know, you have no idea what they're doing while they're complete opposite.”
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