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An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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Post by lucideer »

nsgi wrote: post #122
clairity wrote: post #115

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> "[GA]...doesn't have creepy features that let you spy on individual users" google reserves that for itself so as not to lose it's dominance of online advertising and targeting. why would they share their bread and butter with the little guys?

No idea if that's true or not regarding Google Analytics, but you can opt out of all data sharing and I imagine Google would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't honour that.

> Google would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't honour that.

There are plenty of examples where Google have not honoured such expectations of trust. They have not, to date, gotten into "a lot of trouble".

The GDPR is probably the piece of regulation most likely to possess teeth big enough to get Google into a little bit of trouble, and the task of enforcing that is down to 1 person in a deliberately underfunded department in the country where Google has chosen to locate it's EU HQ[0]

There is no will to prosecute Google for misbehaviour in this area.

- [0] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/over-6700...

Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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Post by coldpie »

jefftk wrote: post #110
coldpie wrote: post #88

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> Who in this day and age reads an article and thinks "Hmm, that was useful, I'll send the author a note of thanks"? I do. Maybe you should, too?

For what it's worth I find it minorly annoying when people send me emails about my posts. I'm happy for people to comment on them, but typically an email is an invitation to have a private discussion and I'd much rather talk publicly ( https://www.jefftk.com/p/comment-dont-message )

You may get more comments/emails than I do. I think I've gotten 3 worthwhile comments and 2 emails in the 8 years my blog has been active. I actually turned comments off, because I was getting thousands of spam daily, and that seems like a waste of everyone's time.

Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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Post by overeater »

lghh wrote: post #180
carlisle_ wrote: post #165

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>They’re perfectly up front and obvious about it, not hiding anything. Wtf, this is the opposite of "up front." You had to poke around and figure it out yourself based on a suspicion. Up front means that they just tell you, no figuring out required.

"Reading the link" isn't quite poking around, is it?

You don't know what it is from just reading the link. And even that itself is not upfront -- browsers have been trying to hide the URL for a while now. What if you read it on Google AMP? I agree with the other commenter that this is misleading.

Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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Post by orangesquirrel »

gamblor956 wrote: post #172
munk-a wrote: post #96

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While GA is free Photoshop has one of the most insanely bloated pricing approaches for casual usage - the fact it's handed out like candy to students (and various institutions allow this instead of familiarizing students with alternatives) is the only reason its kept such a dominant market position. If your boss asks you for some analytics about site usage the first thing searching the web will turn up is GA and you…

I use Photoshop alternatives because they're cheaper than maintaining a perpetual license/subscription, but Photoshop is the big gorilla because it is the best photo editing app in the industry today. Bar none. And that's what lets them get away with their pricing structure. Nobody would pay for Photoshop if it didn't provide value.

I am (1) a current Photoshop CC subscriber and (2) an owner of the second-to-last version of Photoshop that was available under a perpetual license, and I disagree that Photoshop is the best photo editing app in the industry today.

For photo retouching, I prefer Affinity Photo. One thing I especially appreciate about it is how efficient it is at handling large, 16-bit-per-channel images with many layers.

Photoshop is useful to have around mainly because it makes it somewhat easier to work with certain kinds of PSD files that I get from other people.

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