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No, but I'd expect you not to dump chemicals in drinking water yourself? Personally, I feel it would be better to have people with more technical competence involved in the campaign, because it looks a bit sloppy aside from anything else.
I suppose I see this as more akin to driving a car while arguing for more restrictions on carbon emissions. I'm not sure what the case is with these advocates, but in the nonprofit world a lot of times Google Analytics is used to determine what appeals are most effective or what pages people spend time on and it would be difficult to duplicate the sophistication of the tool. To me this is a little different than sell…
Determining which appeals/email/campaigns are most effective is pretty trivial with open source tools, you don't need Google for this. Honestly part of the reason Google analytics is so successful is not because it's much better than anything else, it's because it's the de facto standard, and free, and people don't see an advantage to using anything else. The advantage to using something else (ideally self hosted, or at least that you're paying for) should be clear to a privacy advocate.