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Companies must stop using Google Analytics

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Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#11

why? then what are the alternatives of google analytics. Google is big guient that are collecting all world data. alternative platforms are doing the same. We are not secure anywhere i think. Privacy is already brocken, no options.

> then what are the alternatives

Don't stalk people is the alternative.

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#12

why? then what are the alternatives of google analytics. Google is big guient that are collecting all world data. alternative platforms are doing the same. We are not secure anywhere i think. Privacy is already brocken, no options.

> Privacy is already brocken, no options.

And thus you question every attempt to fix it?

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#13

why? then what are the alternatives of google analytics. Google is big guient that are collecting all world data. alternative platforms are doing the same. We are not secure anywhere i think. Privacy is already brocken, no options.

Because of the law in US that the governments have right to all data stored on any server that a US company or its subsidiaritets own. That clash with the EU GDPR law and the fact that Sweden categorize IP-adress as a Privacy data point.

I.e they can switch to a European vendor that do tracking and analytics.

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#15
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Unrelated: I used ChatGPT to generate remark.js presentation HTML code from some content. It did generate the code, but it inserted a GA snippet along with a random GA account code at the bottom of the code. I did not even catch it immediately (laziness, totally my fault), but noticed it a couple of days later when I was modifying the presentation.

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Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#18
post #8

Unrelated: I used ChatGPT to generate remark.js presentation HTML code from some content. It did generate the code, but it inserted a GA snippet along with a random GA account code at the bottom of the code. I did not even catch it immediately (laziness, totally my fault), but noticed it a couple of days later when I was modifying the presentation.

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If the world operated on a "who cares" basis, nothing interesting would ever happen.

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#19

Analytics right now is basically "you won't get any useful information for your website because we value users' privacy, don't worry we see all of the data anyway" Remember, you aren't the customer if you embed Google Analytics, Google is. edit: if you want analytics, honestly just roll your own... you can't trust advertising companies with your users' data

"Roll your own" is hubris, unless you have the time, energy, inclination, theoretical knowledge, etc; I wouldn't try and solve solved problems if you can help it.

But, host your own is definitely recommended IMO; a lot of the GDPR issues are resolved if you just host your own, because no data is shared to a 3rd party. Then you only need to worry about getting some approval and data retention. I'm sure data retention is a non-issue if you process raw analytics data (that can be traced back to a user) into generalized statistics, too.

Re: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

#20

Analytics right now is basically "you won't get any useful information for your website because we value users' privacy, don't worry we see all of the data anyway" Remember, you aren't the customer if you embed Google Analytics, Google is. edit: if you want analytics, honestly just roll your own... you can't trust advertising companies with your users' data

Matomo is a good self hosted analytics option.
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