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Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by llarsson »

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.

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by robin_reala »

kubav wrote: post #14
robin_reala wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can: use Firefox Mobile and turn on Enhanced Tracking Protection.

You can install ublock on mobile firefox too.

On Android, yes. On iOS you can’t, but at least you’ve still got ETP and Firefox Focus’s ad blocking.

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Post by gonzo41 »

turbinerneiter wrote: post #15

There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…

Untill your last paragraph I was thinking you were going to say "so let's lead from the front and let the trackers see the real internet."

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by hadrien01 »

turbinerneiter wrote: post #15

There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…

What's the name of the movie? I'll add it to my watchlist

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by happybuy »

As a developer of an ad blocker[1] our stats would seem to back up what Plausible has found:

- Despite having equivalent desktop (macOS) and mobile (iOS) apps, most of our users (> 75%) use the app primarily on desktop

- Most users say the key reason for use is for privacy protection; even with Safari providing some inbuilt privacy tracking protection

- Our app is focused on providing a simple 'set and forget' ad blocking approach; so you would think the key audience would be less tech savvy users. However a large proportion of users are tech-inclined and knowledgeable users.

- A lot of tech heavy websites are some of the worst offenders in terms of tracker usage and advertising. For example, The Verge can load 3.5x faster simply by using an ad blocker that blocks the on-page trackers and ads[2]

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/

[2] https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/difference-adblocking/

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by turbinerneiter »

hadrien01 wrote: post #26
turbinerneiter wrote: post #15

There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…

What's the name of the movie? I'll add it to my watchlist

Free Rainer

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by divbzero »

erdii wrote: post #18
turbinerneiter wrote: post #15

There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…

You mean something like AdNauseam? https://adnauseam.io/ Edit: it's an adblocker that is supposed to click on EVERY ad that it blocks.

What GP describes would be stronger than AdNauseum. Instead of sending clicks indiscriminately for every ad, you would send clicks for high quality content.

Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

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Post by isoprophlex »

Yuioup wrote: post #2

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

NextDNS does comprehensive blackholing of tracking and ads, very limited battery impact.

Works on ios and android.

I think their free tier is very generous at 300k lookups/month; otherwise it's something cheap like 2€/month if you want unlimited lookups (i use this to block tracking on all my devices + home network)

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