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Sets cookies
Yes
Sends PII
No
Cross-site tracking
No
Consent required
Analytics
Cookies
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Overview

Behavioural data platform for creating and collecting first-party data. Open-source event tracker that sends data to your own data warehouse (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks). Provides full data ownership with no vendor lock-in on the data store.

Detection capabilities

Signature count
1
Detection methods
network
Property types
hostnamepathname

Performance impact

Performance Impact

Script size
40 KB
Requests per page
1

Common mistakes

  • 1Initialising the Snowplow tracker before consent is obtained, which sends events immediately
  • 2Assuming self-hosted data collection eliminates all compliance obligations — consent is still required
  • 3Not configuring anonymous tracking mode for users who have not consented

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