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I vaguely remember something about textile workers revolting against automation of labor. Ah, never mind my ramblings. I must remember wrong.

>People who were stealing were by and large doing so out of desperation This is so profoundly false that I actually feel insulted by how well you think you understand MY history an…

>And the Soviets are a terrible example. Centrally planned economies of course destroy all individual incentives to accel or improve. Which economy is not centrally planned? We hav…

No, people will just slack because they can buy bread. We already saw this in the soviet block. The human brain works on incentives. Remove the incentive the human is in free fall.…

You think that one morning drivers will wake up and will be laid off? You think that will happen in a year? In 10? This is not grounded in reality.

You are so desperate to justify your thinking (not to me, mind you, to yourself) that you grasp for every straw possible, forgetting what the question was about along the way. This…

Of course they can. When you sign up for GA, you get asked Do you want to share data with google to improve our products? Do you want to pool aggregated data for benchmarking? Both…

Except that my opinion is formed based on logic and my expertise and your opinion is based on... what exactly? >That means GA has a client IP for the user-agent When IP masking is …

Because of a single experiment in highly controlled environment :) Please come back to earth.

Yeah, it's not like this has happened ever before. We definitely need basic income. It will solve all the problems.

This has gone full circle and honestly is quite irritating at this point. People say that Google uses GA data for advertising, I say that this is not the case and then you just cho…

How is GA abusive? The webmaster has to explicitly permit data sharing with google. That is, the webmaster is asked if s/he wants to share data with google and the options are unch…

Everyone who has signed up for GA knows it. When you sign up you are asked 2 questions: Do you want to share data with google to imrpove our products? Do you want to pool your data…

Yeah. So every site and every product on the internet has this dark pattern. Do you use google? Youtube? StackOverflow? Are you outraged by them too?

People just LOOVE to be outraged. For example in this thread people rage about google getting hands on their data. When I point out that the webmaster has to explicitly chose to sh…

ARGH! I HATE TEH GOOGLE AND TEH MARKETERS AND I WILL DOWNVOTE YOU BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE ANALYTICS. IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT YOU ARE RIGHT.

It does not compromise the user's privacy in any way. GA prohibits PII. Also, the webmaster has to opt-in to share the data with Google in the first place.

It is used to improve the product, why is this useless to the user?

I don't see how GA can be classified as malware according to this.

Google does not use GA data unless the webmaster chooses to share it with them. I'm not sure if they use it to improve their ad products, but I wouldn't be surprised if the answer …

It's sad that you can't figure out a name which is not an exact replica of your competitor. And definitely deserves the lawsuit.

I have a feeling you process the data at the client.