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California Consumer Privacy Act (and a note about Twitter)
Just wanted to briefly get this out of the way. On June 24, our Twitter account, @clicky, was suspended for reasons unknown. I'm stunned that they would suspend an account without notification or reason. It just suddenly…gone. We've submitted two appeals and heard nothing back. Hopefully it will be sorted out soon. Twitter is where we post the most updates, in particular we have many things to say that don't warrant a full blog post and often enough that Twitter is the perfect place to do that, so having this cutoff is painful.
Anyways… on to the meat and potatoes:
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Mobile-friendly Clicky is here!
In a few months Clicky will celebrate its 13th birthday, and I'm happy to say it is now (finally) 100% mobile friendly, and our old dedicated mobile site is history. Almost everyone used the normal version of Clicky on their phones anyways, but now it should be a much better experience. This has been one of our biggest feature requests of the last 5+ years so I'm thrilled it's arrived!
Oh and we have a new dark mode too:
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Major tracking upgrade – sendBeacon(), etc!
Yesterday we pushed up a major update to how tracking works. The purpose of these changes is to make the code work even faster and smoother behind the scenes. 24 hours later, no sneaky issues have cropped up, so we're officially announcing it now.
We've migrated most tracking-related beacons to use navigator.sendBeacon instead of appending a [script] element to the HTML document. We've had our eyes on this for quite a while as its purpose is literally for making tracking faster and more reliable, but there's been very little discussion of it anywhere even though most browsers have officially supported it for years now. But earlier this year, Google announced "parallel tracking" for Google ads, which uses sendBeacon instead of redirects to track clicks on ads. Google relying on it for their revenue backbone was a sign that it was ready.
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Personal data management tools for GDPR requests
As promised, by May 25 we are releasing tools to help you find and then export or delete personal data requested by your end users.
We cleaned up the user homepage a bit as you can see below. If there's a new blog post within the last 30 days, the link/title is in the top right corner. This gives more room to the main links on the left, which are now in a single row instead of 2 rows. A bit easier on the eyes. And the link to manage personal data requests is in the "Your web sites" area. Couldn't come up with a good icon for it since we already had a "person" icon for the sub-users link, so we just used a turtle which we had lying around because hey it's cute.
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GD;PR
Hello there! It's been way too long!
As the May 25 deadline for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) approaches, we've been getting a lot of questions about it. So without further ado: