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Even though the Jekyll Minima theme has off the shelf support for Google Analytics, I decided to be a good internet denizen and use something that preserved visitor privacy. I thought that surely in 2021, somebody would have built a simple page view counter that I could just plug into my dinky blog for minimal cost. I ended up evaluating all the popular alternatives: Matamo, Plausible, and Cloudflare analytics. As it turns out, all of these are rather expensive. What should have been simple beca...