Wow, a client really decided to remove the #Meta / #Facebook Pixel from the website entirely due to "data protection concerns", especially after last year's giant scandal with the "localhost"...! R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

Swiss banks are still too much in bed with Russia it seems. My donation to support Ukraine (Come Back Alive) was rejected due to #UBS "company policy" - savelife.in.ua/en/ #wtf

Love that stat: More and more households in Switzerland and especially #Zurich have said goodbye to their car (me included!).

#BeyondPageviews, der einzige Analytics Podcast, den ich regelmässig höre (wegen @mbaersch.bsky.social ), hat neue Folgen, v.a. zu #ClaudeCode (nutze ich auch viel) und zum Quark bei #PiwikPro / #CookieInformation, zu dem ich ja auch einiges geschrieben habe...😆 www.termfrequenz.de/podcast/beyo...

#PiwikPro, on Jan 13, changed how the "Session Entry URL" is calculated. While so far, Sessions without Pageviews had NO Entry URL, now they have the URL of the page on which the non-Pageview Event happened. Seems better to me, but should have been communicated. They add it to the changelog.

#DemandGen campaigns = Bot campaigns. Especially in Asia. 100's of thousands of clicks, but a Consent Decision Rate of 0%. Not a single "User" left within the first 10s, not a single one stayed > 2 min. But the Campaign Manager is still not convinced... 🤯🤯🤯

UPDATE: #PiwikPro yesterday sent an email to Core clients: The migration to #CookieInformation is no longer mandatory. You have time until the end of 2026 to do so. It's not trivial! My article gives you all you need to know ahead of time: thebounce.io/q-a-migratin...

For a major client, #Meta Pixel had minor delivery issues on Jan 16. #GoogleAds (the lighter blue one) Server-Side Enhanced Conversions API struggled a bit between Jan 9 and 12th. (via #Tealium Event Stream Connectors report)

Have you ever noticed that ‘what’ rhymes with ‘lot’ but not with ‘that’? Likewise, ‘car’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘war’, and neither do ‘trash’ and ‘wash’, ‘catch’ and ‘watch’, and ‘camp’ and ‘swamp’. Why is that? It’s all because of the /w/ sound. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn more: 1/

Just when I thought I should be not just using, but actually learning #terraform for real (I did use #pulumi btw for my Adobe Analytics Component Manager), somebody says it’s out: cloudwithazeem.medium.com/moving-away-... any opinions here?

Migrating from #PiwikPro Consent Manager to #CookieInformation? You are in for quite a (complex) journey. I have collected my main questions and answers here: thebounce.io/q-a-migratin... Feel free to add yours.

If you expected #CookieInformation 's "cookie scanner" (their way to detect what technologies you are using...) to be able to click "Accept" on a website's #PiwikPro #ConsentManager (same company), you definitely expect too much.

Pure kindergarten: Political decisions are made on the basis of "who got the Nobel Peace Prize"...

So far I thought the social platforms (#Meta, #tiktok) are world champs in maximum self-attribution of conversions, but there are specialized #Attribution platforms that you give you even higher numbers than the platforms themselves... Tiktok Rev acc to Tiktok: 100k. Acc to attr platform: 245k! 😆😆

Has anybody at #PiwikPro thought through this whole "forced migration to #CookieInformation" idea? To test the connection between CookieInfo and PP, you need to upgrade to a Business Account. But as soon as you upgrade to a Business Account, your old CM stops working. So how do u test this shit???

«Warum verkaufen Baumärkte überhaupt leicht entzündbare Produkte, die beim Brennen hochgiftige Dämpfe freisetzen, für die Anwendung in Innenräumen?» www.nzz.ch/schweiz/scha... Dito natürlich viele andere Anbieter:innen.

It was too late on my laptop, but on my desktop PC, I extended the #windows 10 lifetime to Oct 26 by signing up for security updates until then. #Windows11 is such a disaster in terms of UX, Privacy and performance. I am seriously considering trying Mac again (couldn’t get used to it 3 yrs ago).

On New Year’s Day, California gave its 40 million residents a permanent delete button for a largely covert part of the personal data economy. Here's how Californians can use the new tool, as well as some privacy measures the rest of us can take:

My Christmas and new year‘s revelation has been Danny Bate (@dannybate.bsky.social) and his superbly entertaining and informative book “Why Q needs U” - if u ever wondered where our letters actually come from, check it out (and Danny’s podcast)! Thank you so much, Dr. Bate! You add joy to my life.

We need to dramatically improve ad libraries as a core way to slow down scams.

If you really need to have a wood fire, at least do these things to not harm the rest of us too much. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I miss #Webtrends (although I don't miss it really), so I decided to bring it back in my presentations.

Always nostalgic when you can still select Deutsche Mark (DM) in a supplier registration form... (just in case you live in the past as well: that currency went out of business in 2002...)

Just when you think you can sign up for the #PiwikPro Business plan, they scare the hell out of you: Does anybody know if you really cannot use even existing Consent Manager implementations once activating the Business plan?

Just because it is a URL you can request and get a response does not mean it is a REST API! ...😫

First, #Russia starts a war against #Ukraine, but insists it's not a "war". Now the same Russia is telling us that people who are in favor of Ukraine's self-defence are "in favor of war" instead of "peace"... I don't how much further you can bend reality. Don't fall for the Russian narrative!

Getting a refresher on self-managed mobile app install attribution by the one and only @davidhermann.bsky.social at #MeasureCampZurich

Ein Mathematiker, der Flugangst hat, nimmt eine Bombe mit an Board, weil es statistisch gesehen sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, dass zwei Bomben an Board sind.

"Will we need to update all our keywords in #GoogleAds to lower-case to align with #PiwikPro ’s reporting?" => Thou shalt never have case mixes in Google Ads in the first place! Google treats them case-insensitively, but they cause a problem bc PP can't match mixed-case keywords.

Yes, just keep pushing tracking changes live completely untested. And close down the staging environment while at it. "There may be need to emphasize when things shouldn't go live. Our Continous Integration setup envisions every finished feature goes live asap..." #ContinuousIntegration

#Croatian “patriots” - not surprised anymore.

Recently, #PiwikPro added the "description" field for Custom Dimensions. But instead of going into 8 Sites to edit the descriptions for 60 CDs each (480 edits), just edit them once in ur blueprint site & then sync to the others (30 seconds). With #PiwikProManager. Free! github.com/loldenburg/p...

"Here are 3 sentences describing the upcoming project (which could be gigantic, and we give you no insight into the existing setup of anything). Can you send a binding estimate for your efforts?" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🚬🚬🚬😝😝😝🙈🙈🙈

#GoogleAds Enhanced Conversions server-side endpoint had minor issues with requests timing out yesterday. Seems to have stopped after 8 PM CET, but better check your monitoring...

On Oct 25, #Google suddenly delivered 10 times the normal daily budget in their #YouTubeAds. So instead of 2500 EUR, the client suddenly spent 25k! Google's explanation is a bit laughable: "no further impact".

You write to #Adobe CH because a client wants to extend their contract. For several weeks, you only get answers like "I'm currently on vacation", "please write to XYZ", etc. So many people working there, does not seem like anybody is doing any work there. Not the first time!

Haven’t tried this, but absolutely sounds worth a look: #BigQuery #ELT #DWH #GCP: “BigQuery + Functions: ETL Without Pipelines“ by Codastra on Medium: medium.com/@2nick2patel...

My short presentation video on #PiwikPro Manager from PiwikPro Day 2025 is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVgI... - just like the many other great ones from that day!

My first visit to a nuclear power plant (Beznau) was very interesting and really made me glow!

If you move to #Server-Side Tagging, don't just assume that vendor endpoints always work. That is far from the reality. While it was not so easy to configure to regular email schedule, #Tealium Server-Side's connector performance dashboard closes this gap for me at a client nicely.

threat is real: Where will #AIslop (Spam and Fake News created via #GenAI) lead us? Back to radical censorship? Civil wars because each side will just claim the other side is producing “AI fake media”? In any case it will deepen the climate crisis & societal divisions youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...

#PiwikPro Day 2025 has started. Check out the many interesting presentations and join mine at 15:00 CEST: piwik.pro/piwik-pro-da...

"Wenn Sie diese E-Mail nicht mehr empfangen möchten, können Sie diese hier kostenlos abbestellen." - Wow! KOSTENLOS abbestellen!? Das ist mal ein Angebot! 🤣

#Microsoft #Teams is maybe the best example for how shitty products can become a market standard. Main client switched from Slack to Teams a year ago and I can't count how much time and how many nerves I lose every day because of how shitty, clunky, unorganized and inconsistent Teams is. #weeklyRant

You can still join many good-looking folks and me for the virtual #PiwikPro Day next Tuesday. I will show you my free tool that turns Admins from Piwik Amateur to Piwik Pro! piwik.pro/piwik-pro-da...

Not new, but #Zuckerberg criminal energy once more: Visiting a website with #Facebok Pixel installed a local server on ur #Android device which connected anonymous users' behavior (incl incognito mode) to real users if u also had the Facebook or #Instagram app. localmess.github.io 🤯

When #PiwikPro started throttling their API this year without giving client a proper way to prepare or test for this, they told me that I could use the X-Retry-After header in the response to handle when to trigger the next request... Turns out this header always contains "0" and is thus useless.😑

An URGENT pixel request on Friday for a campaign that's to launch on Monday. The "pixel" is a request to domain A which loads an entire #GoogleTagManager container onto the page which in turn could load anything onto the page... :D Atm it "only" loads ... (tbc)

I just burned my first CD since I don't remember when... It wasn't easy... :D

Do you prefer the pre-AI world where documentations were written in shitty language by people who struggled writing in entire sentences, or the present where they look professional, but are full of often unreflected copy-paste blabla with meaningless adjectives and bullshit bingo all over the place?