How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

Post by pachico » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 9:00 AM UTC

einpoklum wrote: post #167

pachico wrote: post #164

I have started some weeks ago this project: https://github.com/iris-analytics It's a small JS that gathers data and sends it to a Go backend to then be stored in ClickHouse. Although there's lots to do, we use it in production successfully. Remember ClickHouse was born precisely for web analytics where a single instance can handle hundreds of millions of inserts per day with no effort. I did this because stats say ad…

Perhaps you should post it on "Show HN".

Post by luckylion » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 9:31 AM UTC

elondaits wrote: post #93

epidemian wrote: post #75

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Then you would expect for Chrome to show a higher number of GA blocking "users". But that's not the case: the article mentions that the percentage of users blocking GA on Chrome is on par with Safari. And I don't know what you mean by "serious". The most common crawlers (Google, Baidu, Yandex, etc) identify themselves as bots on the User-Agent very clearly. Personally, those are the ones that I'd call the most "serio…

The net is full of unidentified bots scraping content or looking for vulnerabilities (contact forms , wordpress logins, etc). On many occasions I had traffic issues and had to check logs and these were very hard to block, because they ignore the robots file, don’t advertise themselves in the User Agent and use a large pool of IPs.

Post by microtonal » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

matijsvzuijlen wrote: post #158

microtonal wrote: post #131

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It’s you who requests those resources, That does not matter, at least in the EU where citizens are protected by the GDPR. Article 6 of the GDPR: Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: (a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

Item (f) in that same Article 6 can be applied to collect data without explicit consent: (f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Post by ss64 » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 9:38 AM UTC

technion wrote: post #6

What's interesting to me about the number of people who block Google analytics, is the number of people working with those analytics in product management, marketing or SEO, that are apparently unaware of anyone being able to block Google Analytics.

Post by going_to_800 » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 10:09 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #137

going_to_800 wrote: post #71

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Google Analytics spies you? Lol. Those tools that you use daily on the browser that saves you time and makes your life easier got to that point because they had a way to learn how they were used. Seems that you don't make a difference between ad related tracking and product based tracking.

> Those tools that you use daily on the browser that saves you time and makes your life easier got to that point because they had a way to learn how they were used. As far as I am aware, Hacker News has never used Google Analytics.