Chill. This is the defacto statement, they probably just copied it from somewhere.

GA was the only way to get a simple page count view without setting up a database or a backend system before we switched to serverless cloud step function lambda craziness.

Seems like a passion project, and they just wanted to know if their work was used. I give people the benefit of the doubt on all of this when it's a small site.

No it's not. It's dealing with the red tape of EU cookie legislation.

Do you want to know how many human years my last company had to devote to regulation? We could have built a hundred startups with all that effort.

I'm not saying GDPR right to be forgotten and data dump/portability isn't important, but it comes with a steep cost that everyone pays everywhere. So much time and money was spent on it. Easily billions of dollars.

And the cookie stuff? How useful has that been?