It’s time to ditch Google Analytics

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  1. guest

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    It’s time to ditch Google Analytics
    February 1, 2019
    https://www.fastcompany.com/90300072/its-time-to-ditch-google-analytics
     
    guest, Feb 3, 2019
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  2. summerheat

    summerheat Registered Member

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    ... says a website which has Facebook, 2o7 and lots of other trackers imbedded. How hypocritical.
     
    summerheat, Feb 3, 2019
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  3. Floyd 57

    Floyd 57 Registered Member

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    Why would they care about privacy, they care about tracking us as much as possible, and google analytics does a better job of that
     
    Floyd 57, Feb 3, 2019
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  4. Rasheed187

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    Good point, but I believe the article is about better alternatives to Google Analytics. Apparently these new companies are more focused on privacy.
     
    Rasheed187, Feb 9, 2019
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  5. wat0114

    wat0114 Registered Member

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    It's not exactly hard to block. Either an ad/script blocker or in my case the firewall I use will block it as well:

    Code:
    2019:02:08|17:22:50|Blocked|1|IPv6 UDP [2607:f8b0:400a:803::200e]:443(57135)|Google Chrome Beta|Domains: General Analytics/*analytics.*/www-google-analytics.l.google.com OutgoingV6|C:\program files (x86)\google\chrome beta\application\chrome.exe
    So I don't see the big deal about this.
     
    wat0114, Feb 9, 2019
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