[jussivee]

Not true. Consent has nothing to do with cookies. If you look at what the ePrivacy Directive article 5.3. says, it's pretty clear:

"Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent, ... "

So even Fathom, and other analytics tools that use browser fingerprinting or similar methods require consent.

And also, the whole no cookie, no consent -mantra does not respect user privacy. In some ways, browser fingerprinting is even worse because that's much harder for an average user to block than cookies.

[the_gipsy]

It might be true, if the stored data is truly anonymized, as they seem to not be storing any data on the browser.

There is a fuzzy line somewhere between access-logs and user-tracking.

Personally I think that at that point, one should just stop loading analytic scripts and stick to server-side access-log analytic toolg like goaccess.io.

[PinkWitch]

What about Plausible?