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?

Another move by the #woke US government banning unwanted words from the public because thou shalt lie is what God told them to do.

The wall has been down for nearly 37 years now, but the top 100 German companies don’t have a single Eastern German C-level executive! #germany #gdr podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/d...

variety.com/2025/tv/news... This is what corporate collaboration with a fascist takeover of a formerly liberal democratic country looks like: Jimmy Kimmel Live Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute; Sinclair Demands Apology

Discovering the channel performance reporting for Google Ads Performance Max A lot to say about this pseudo-sankey diagram, but because my opinion is completely biased when it comes to talking about the G Ads, I preferred to let Alan Grant to comment on these metrics moving in herds... #dataviz

#charlieKirk is #maga Horst Wessel.

Cookie-Banner: Wo sind sie rechtlich erforderlich und wie bändigt man die «Consent-Technik»? 🛠️ Darüber sprechen Frank Mickeler und ich am #WordPress Meetup in Zürich am Donnerstag: www.meetup.com/wordpress-zu... Termin: 11. September 2025 um 19.00 Uhr bei Liip am Limmatplatz, kostenlos! 👋🏻

In case you want to follow along with the latest acquisitions, I curate a list in my notes. Check out its announcements and related notes here.

Not saying the name, but the best way to ruin your vendor-client relationship: In renewal contract for 24-25, vendor silently slid in a cost for a previously free feature, without mentioning that explicitly to the client. Now, a year later, they tell us we need to pay for using that feature...

When a #CDN is introduced and all developers just check the performance of the first pageview of a user, strongly believing that a CDN just MUST improve the page performance...

Some onths with #Claude: ok for simple things, but way more hallucination than #ChatGPT. Frightening that so many devs rave about it. Quote Claude: "You're absolutely right to call me out - I'm not certain about this either and it could very well be another hallucination. I should stop guessing." 🤣

The hatred for #CSV & #Excel among some data folks is NOK. Yes, Excel is NOT a good solution for many data formats, but for some (like making semi-large pivotable datasets accessible for the masses) it is a good tool. I do some things in a database, others in a dashboarding tool, others in Excel.

If you run services that your Analytics has to wait for (like AB Testing tools telling your Analytics tool which test a user is in), you need to monitor them - eg Adobe Target being very unresponsive this week, probably due to our proxy (not Adobe's fault). thebounce.io/monitor-serv...

"Lukas, can you write a paragraph for the privacy section" (for a 3rd-party tool that I don't own, don't even have access to, don't know where data is stored nor what the data is being used for.")... :D

Seem like somebody from #SimilarWeb aka the tool with the most complicated pricing system ever has joined #PiwikPro. Instead of simply basing the price on volume, enterprise licenses now come with 434789 "This is included, but this not" clauses where you waste days just figuring out what you get...

#dianomi - another ad platform which, in their implementation docs, talks about how #cookieless and privacy-respecting they are. But they use unique, user-specific click id and store it in the browser via localStorage. That's the most naive version of "cookieless" ever. Who believes this stuff???

Out now: Another giant efficiency booster for #PiwikPro Tag Manager Admins: bulk-publish changes to multiple Sites at once - optionally by default after Edit & Sync operations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95u... No more need to go into each Site and publish each one individually.

Agencies want their #pixels everywhere, but then their clients pay to monitor their failures... I say CORS Errors, they answer with (incorrect) CSP instructions🤣. I send screenshot of CORS error in console with missing required Header, they answer with "but it's a 200" screenshot of the Network tab.

Launching Consent.Help :) consent.help Spent yesterday testing for the new library launch—and it’s official: Is replacing the Consent Checker tool next week! 😄 You can now parse and build consent strings in real time. The easiest, most complete way to debug your consent state.

I don't know if I am using it wrongly, but #claude Code is slow and produces so many more errors than #ChatGPT or myself that I feel it actually slows me down and after several tries I just have to go all the back to what I had before. JavaScript and Python programming. Can't really recommend so far

Insane

😆IT Security sends fake #phishing test e-mails to test employees' awareness. But these e-mails are caught by the phishing filter of Outlook... 🤣🤣🤣

AI: great for beginners, but not so much for pros? Finding the hard-to-detect issues in the code that #Claude, #chatgpt & co produce - I’ve been there many times. It makes professional programmers 20% LESS efficient with AI assistance (even though they feel more efficient): metr.org/blog/2025-07...

#StackAdapt has changed their tracking methods recently without bothering to test it. Their server does not care about CORS Policies and about the endless console errors that causes.

I know #Zurich is expensive, but sometime even a local is shocked. I just reserved for 2 at a not-exactly-fancy restaurant. And to do that, u need to give them ur credit card. And if you don't come or are late or don't cancel within 12 hours before the event, they charge u 50 CHF - PER PERSON! 😆

#teads Consent Integration has 2 major flaws: #1 They confuse Google Consent Mode signals with signals for Teads. #2 They require Google Consent Mode OR a signal by a "CMP that is registered with IAB", which means their pixel won't work if you have a self-built, but perfectly compliant CMP. 🤦‍♂️

If you suddenly make your free product a paid one, bummer, but fine, we all need to live. But then please make it easy for existing clients to figure out how big the license is they will need. #PiwikPro unfortunately turns this into a very tedious exercise.

www.pedromonjo.com/2025/07/unde... by Pedro Monjo brings the complexity regarding Sessions in #AdobeCJA full circle. How do you eg treat Sessions metrics when you have a mix of non-sessionizable data like email stats and website interactions? #CustomerJourneyAnalytics

No, a landing page with an URL that has 670 characters - not counting UTM parameters - is not a good idea.

This #PiwikPro Tag Manager bug is now fixed. Your Piwik Visitor Cookies last as long as you specify them in your Piwik Pro Analytics Config Tag.

Ads getting clicked by bots is not new. But now targeting ads to Bots seems to be coming… futurism.com/ai-ads-targe...

Cool Digital Analytics #Job at one of the largest Swiss E-Commerce brands. #AdobeAnalytics focus, but people w/ experience in other DA tools welcome. The focus is on actual analysis and tracking concepts. Ur the glue between product teams & data. German required. jobs.brackalltron.ch/offene-stell...

Analyzing a display campaign for #Liechtenstein only... So I guess 148 Sessions are a lot? 😵

The buggiest #GoogleAds tool (Data Manager) has been driving me crazy for half a year now. Now: gbraid and wbraid integration - THERE ARE NO ROWS with both gbraid & gclid or wbraid & gclid or wbraid & gbraid. This "error" makes no sense. Starting to think braid import doesn't work at all.

Elon Musk hat an seiner Grok-KI schrauben lassen, damit sie mehr zu seinen politischen Überzeugungen passt und was soll man sagen: Es ist ein voller Erfolg. (Screenshots: @gedsperber.bsky.social auf Facebook).

No more misunderstandings like "Sorry, can't attend at that time. Ur org calendar does not reflect my availability - I am external". So I finally wrote a Cloud Function that synchronizes my dim28 calendar with all the calendars of my clients (MS or Google doesn't matter). Will save so much time!

Liebevolle Betreuung in einer „zauberhaften“ Umgebung - who wouldn’t love their kids to go to such a lovely place for daycare?🙈🙈😹😹😹

Can somebody get the term „Branded keywords” out of people’s heads? It is “brand keywords”. Nobody is actively “branding” certain search keywords, eg by putting brand stickers on them in google search. 🙈

#AnalyticsPioneers Summit - on the way

What are your experiences with Barcode Scanners (aka #EAN Scanners) in online shops? One client (supermarket) is happy with its usage, another one (larger shop) decided to remove the scanner after years of less than 0.5% of Mobile Users using it (and of those, < 10% finding a product they scan)

If you use this setting in your #PiwikPro Analytics tag, it does not work. It sets the expiration to your custom time when the user accepts consent, but then on the next pageview it is at the 13 months default again. Bug is acknowledged by PiwikPro.