nice! Find and replace across a codebase is one of the few times I open an IDE.

Being able to interactively ignore instances for replacement is great!

This page has unnecessary user tracking, such as:

{ "n": "User wrote something", "u": "https://blank.page/", "d": "blank.page", "r": "https://news.ycombinator.com/", "p": { "branch": "master" } }

Given that this information is sent to Plausible, a more privacy-friendly alternative to Google, would people complain if it used Google Analytics instead? I'm gonna go bet they wouldn't.

Google runs on 99.9% of websites and no one ever bats an eye (haven't heard anyone complain about it on this forum), but somehow a less terrible tracking suite is noteworthy enough to complain about.

(Disclaimer: I have a paid Plausible subscription for my products because it collects much less data than Google, and I don't need to add a cookie banner)

If you haven't heard people complaining about Google Analytics, you haven't been listening. Personally, I block access to it except from one "dirty" browser for pages that won't run without access.

Firstly, yes, people would complain if it was GA instead? I'm not even sure how serious this comment is.

Secondly, it's noteworthy because this is supposedly a "Simple, No BS" notepad. Tracking user activity doesn't fit into either of those categories for a ... notepad.

That's kind of useful to know what page you were on when you took the note.

Is that transferred to an external server?

Yes, to https://plausible.io

Unnecessary to whom?

How does this connect to the database? Does an agent have to run within your VPC?