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Microsoft Clarity – Analytics for Websites

by fasicle on 11/5/20, 8:18 AM with 9 comments

• by XCSme on 11/5/20, 3:25 PM

  If you care at least a bit about privacy, having such a service for "free" from Microsoft is really worrying.

  You are probably better off going with something like Matomo or userTrack.

• by ksec on 11/5/20, 11:10 AM

  Several elements inside Demo seems out of place on Safari.

  And may be just me, all these Microsoft web services' design looks absolutely awful.

• by purplecats on 11/5/20, 12:26 PM

  > Clarity is a free service.

  this actually looks pretty neat, and seems super simple to install. the pricing is free. demo looks great.

  I don't get the catch. is this just a marketing scheme to get their name out? why would they give out a data intensive product like this for free?

  i just installed it, so we will see.

• by ffpip on 11/5/20, 4:31 PM

  Thanks for warning me.

  If you aren't in the tracking/ad industry, please add clarity.microsoft.com to your hosts file/ublock Origin.

• by Oras on 11/5/20, 9:28 AM

  Looks promising, I am giving it a try.