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Am I dumb or does this article fail to explain what does the tag manager actually do? And not just with a loaded word, such as surveillance or spying, but actually technically explain what they are selling for and why it is bad.
Maybe you’re being misled by the cryptic name. It’s got nothing to do with managing tags, it’s a behaviour tracker and fingerprint machine.
I have an idea that another way of preventing being tracked is just massively spamming trash in the data layer object, pushing thousands of dollars worth of purchase events and such, pushing randomly generated user details and other such events. Perhaps by doing this your real data will be hard to filter out. A side effect is also that data becomes unreliable overall, helping less privacy aware people in the process.
Now there’s a fun idea!! I wonder how difficult it would be to spoof events. Edit: looks like this might exist already: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/
Between this and "track me not" i've been fighting back against ads and connecting my "profile" with any habits since 2016 or so. I should also note i have pihole and my own DNS server upstream, so that's thiry-eight grand in ad clicks that got through blacklists.
I don't think this article makes a good case for why you should. >The more of us who incapacitate Google's analytics products and their support mechanism, the better. Not just for the good of each individual person implementing the blocks - but in a wider sense, because if enough people block Google Analytics 4, it will go the same way as Universal Google Analytics. These products rely on gaining access to the majori…
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Maybe you’re being misled by the cryptic name. It’s got nothing to do with managing tags, it’s a behaviour tracker and fingerprint machine.
I mean technically you can use it to manage HTML tags to inject into a site.
I don't think this article makes a good case for why you should. >The more of us who incapacitate Google's analytics products and their support mechanism, the better. Not just for the good of each individual person implementing the blocks - but in a wider sense, because if enough people block Google Analytics 4, it will go the same way as Universal Google Analytics. These products rely on gaining access to the majori…
If the frontend automatic js is blocked, it doesn’t matter.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe you’re being misled by the cryptic name. It’s got nothing to do with managing tags, it’s a behaviour tracker and fingerprint machine.
I mean technically you can use it to manage HTML tags to inject into a site.
I don't think this article makes a good case for why you should. >The more of us who incapacitate Google's analytics products and their support mechanism, the better. Not just for the good of each individual person implementing the blocks - but in a wider sense, because if enough people block Google Analytics 4, it will go the same way as Universal Google Analytics. These products rely on gaining access to the majori…
I don't think this article makes a good case for why you should. >The more of us who incapacitate Google's analytics products and their support mechanism, the better. Not just for the good of each individual person implementing the blocks - but in a wider sense, because if enough people block Google Analytics 4, it will go the same way as Universal Google Analytics. These products rely on gaining access to the majori…
Am I dumb or does this article fail to explain what does the tag manager actually do? And not just with a loaded word, such as surveillance or spying, but actually technically explain what they are selling for and why it is bad.
It doesn't track things by itself. It just links your data to other tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Pixel to do the tracking.
This kind of data lets businesses do stuff like send coupon emails to people who left something in their cart.
There are lots of other uses. Basically, any time you want to add code or track behavior without dealing with a developer.
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I mean technically you can use it to manage HTML tags to inject into a site.
Well I can inject HTML tags (or elements) with native JavaScript. Or manage them. Why would I want a bloated third party piece of software doing that?