dustinchilson

From a website owner's perspective makes sense, move to a controlled domain and I get my analytics again

From an Adblock user perspective, that was kinda the point, I don't want a site tracking me and I don't really care if I break notifications (which in most cases I don't want anyway). If I want the broken functionality I'll add a site to an allowlist once they're trusted. In the adblock arms race this is a bandaid that will get fingerprinted and blocked as well eventually

Ultimately the question is if the analytics data / notification functionality for roughly 30% of internet traffic (based on quick google search, who knows if that's accurate) so valuable to take on the burden of care and feeding of another web service?

We actively use the open source version self hosted to act as an api layer for us.

It works pretty well for that, there are some gotchas if you want to run multi-tenant / enforce security. It also does quite a bit of caching which can cause issues when running multi-tenant / many dbs. Depending on the db you use underneath it, the sql it generates could be better optimized (like all ORMs). We do quite a bit of pre-modeling in the db and expose more optimized tables to cube as the query layer.

Ultimately it works best as an internal single tenant semantic layer. A lot of the work that's being done has been for the cloud service so some parts of the OSS version are starting to fall behind

Docs aren't amazing for parts of it, some query functions aren't documented at all but can be found in the source. Some updates introduce new un-documented features like row level security that significantly slow performance so like all libs have to test well on upgrade.

Seems to me a lot of companies FB, Google, MS all want it (either to compete or to kill it) but don't want to be in the middle of a political mess.

Isn't this the root of the problem?

Neither you or the government/state decides what you get to do with your mind. An advertising company decides what to do with it and can manipulate it however it decides best benefits itself. Not you, not society, Facebook, what makes Facebook the most money.

I've toured the datacenter, it's a pretty nice place

1) You'd setup a Policy based on directory or Regex of files and organize your monorepo so that only the people that need to see the PR would. Use your tools to your advantage.

2) It really depends on your culture at your company, having open access to view and change the code from marketing to submit small PRs or possibly move to development. Or submit blog posts or spelling fixes to the marketing website can make for a great team.

3) This adversarial "Critter", Developers > Marketing view makes for a very toxic workplace. Marketing is a skill-set just like development, without marketing or sales there is nothing develop, without development, there's nothing to sell.

The #1 point was not obvious to me as you mention that "Fi connects to your current checking account" below the fold and when you scroll farther you mention FDIC Insured which implied to me you where a bank.

A good expenses and banking app on top of many other banks makes sense to me.