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Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by themacguffinman »

Worth noting that if you're already willing to setup a first-party proxy like Plausible does in this comparison, you can do the same thing with Google Analytics using either the NYPL project [1] or send whatever you want to the Google Measurement Protocol API [2]. You can usually send whatever you want through a first-party proxy in basically any competent analytics product. Analytics is not ads.

I find it this comparison a little misleading because Plausible admits that their own script/endpoint are blocked by adblockers, just to a lesser extent than Google Analytics [3].

[1] https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy

[2] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

[3] https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by piaste »

aomobile wrote: post #13

I surf in private mode. A super simple solution for all your tracking protection needs people. It boggles my mind how this comes up again and again yet we have private browsing since when? The 90s? Don’t be lazy - that’s the real reason, isn’t it? Having to login again..

You do know that fingerprinting is a thing, right? Private browsing is designed to keep your local device clean of your tracks, not the wider web. At all.

Telling Facebook "hello, I am visiting baddragon.com from Mozilla Firefox 63.1 on Obscure Linux in Podunk, Saskatchewan, population 32" is barely an improvement over telling them "hello I am John Q. Smith and I am visiting baddragon.com".

And of course, private browsing is generally per-instance. Log in to your Google account in a private tab? All your other "private tabs" are also logged in to Google until you close the private browser.

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by capableweb »

llarsson wrote: post #21
aomobile wrote: post #13

I surf in private mode. A super simple solution for all your tracking protection needs people. It boggles my mind how this comes up again and again yet we have private browsing since when? The 90s? Don’t be lazy - that’s the real reason, isn’t it? Having to login again..

No, we really did not have private browsing since the nineties. It's a new thing, for sure. What we had in the nineties was that we could configure our browsers to ask for every single cookie that a site wanted to place on our computers. That got old really fast when internet advertising became a thing, and tracking cookies were all over the place.

> No, we really did not have private browsing since the nineties. It's a new thing, for sure.

Indeed! Seems the first browser to implement some sort of incognito/private/separated profile (specifically to hide your tracks, not general like Firefox Profiles) was Safari around the release of Mac OS X Tiger (April 29, 2005).

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by kunagi7 »

Yuioup wrote: post #2

It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.

Use Bromite, Vivaldi or Brave on Android. They have built-in ad tracker protection. The first two even support custom filtering lists.

On iOS the options are a bit worse but Brave has some kind of adblocking that works. Safari also supports blocking lists via AdGuard but it's more limited.

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