What's wrong with Shareaholic?
Shareaholic offers share buttons, related content, and analytics — but at a price: significant data collection from your visitors. Their privacy policy acknowledges collecting browsing behaviour across sites that use their widgets.
For European visitors, this is a GDPR landmine. For US visitors under CCPA, it's similarly problematic.
TossIt.link vs Shareaholic
| Feature | Shareaholic | TossIt.link |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-site tracking | Yes | No |
| Visitor data collection | Extensive | None |
| Analytics ownership | Their platform | Your Matomo instance |
| Share count display | Yes | Yes, real-time |
| A/B testing | Pro only | Pro only |
| Price (entry) | Free (data cost) | Free (no data cost) |
The key difference: who owns the data
With Shareaholic, visitor behaviour data goes to Shareaholic's servers. With TossIt.link, all analytics go to your own self-hosted Matomo instance. Nobody else sees it. Nobody can sell it.
This is the fundamental difference between old-generation share widgets and TossIt.link.
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