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- Leave Google Analytics On
- Turn Google Analytics Off
- See if I care
- Use in-house solution
Is that a contradiction?
freethread Well, I haven't looked into this for a while but I'm pretty sure GA doesn't use cookies. There's an ID number and a little javascript that measures what it does and sends that to Google in an ajax call and it's done.
They don't manipulate the data. They provide the data for advertisers and web sites trying to attract advertisers. While Google uses their own data to advertise their own products, it does them no good to manipulate it in any other fashion. Data is data.
freethread Well, I haven't looked into this for a while but I'm pretty sure GA doesn't use cookies. There's an ID number and a little javascript that measures what it does and sends that to Google in an ajax call and it's done.
I use a combination of www/awstats and local tools on my web servers to provide me with statistics.
Because I downloaded it and installed it on my web server. It doesn't add chunks of code to be run in the context of visitor's browsers. It just looks at web server log files. The source is provided for anyone to look at (although, look how much that did for OpenSSL).So you track your visitors?!!!!! And how do we know awstats isn't secretly sending that data directly to the NSA?!!!!!
I'm not. Neither is my ISP, I can say that with certainty because I am my ISP. What happens when something hits our couple hundred peers or dozen or so transit connections is out of my hands, but since the statistics are only viewable locally, that isn't relevant here.More importantly, are you sending that data to the NSA?!!!
You say that but how do we know?
I think no one has caught onto my making fun of the tin-hat wearers.
It's all a bunch of parroting each other over something they read on the internet (so it must be true).
Oh, well, then the answer is to turn it on. Without question there are only benefits and no downsides.As I wrote a couple back, it's not a matter of the tin-hattism, but about what is good policy for a forum such as this one.
I am quite paranoid regarding security and privacy, but I have never seen Google Analytics a such great "threat".
Can we be more specific about what informations this script can retreive? Personally, I don't think that collecting informations is a threat to my/our privacy a priori. We must determine the kind of informations collected.
You are threatened by this? Ever advertising agency in the world does the same thing.It is very simple actually. Google creates your full consumer profile so that they can display ads that are more relevant to your shopping preferences.
So has Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Amazon. Are you equally threatened by them?gkontos said:The problem is that google has invaded into a very large majority of products and services. Payments, storage, computing, mobile phones, home entertainment, maps, satellites, etc. the list can go on and on.
Every company you ever do business with also has this extreme power to use all the information they collect from you, too.gkontos said:That gives them extreme power to use all the information that they collect.
so that they can display ads that are more relevant to your shopping preferences.
Oh, well, if somebody at NSA waste his time tracking my steps, his life must be very shabby.Somebody mentioned the NSA before.
Which is why I have most ad networks blocked at the domain level and use browser addons for whitelisting what I choose to allow on the websites I choose.Every company you ever do business with also has this extreme power to use all the information they collect from you, too.
Well, your issue is not with Google but with advertising and advertisers. EVERY company that sells anything tracks you in some way, shape or form.Which is why I have most ad networks blocked at the domain level and use browser addons for whitelisting what I choose to allow on the websites I choose.
Are you serious? You compare google that has full access to what I am typing now, with other advertising companies? Don't you see the difference here?You are threatened by this? Ever advertising agency in the world does the same thing.
They wish but they don't even come near...So has Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and Amazon. Are you equally threatened by them?
Yes and here is where you miss the point. Google has the power to collect more information regarding my profile, my preferences, my favorite books, cars, computers, health, financial, etc than any other company in the world.Every company you ever do business with also has this extreme power to use all the information they collect from you, too.