Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
by f4rker on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:09PM
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This is correct. The vast vast majority of people are not using adblock.
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Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
by achairapart on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:45PM
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Sometime ago I read an interesting interview[1] with the Economist deputy editor, Tom Standange, saying things like:
> The other thing about ads is that 41 percent of millennials are using ad block. My daughter has ad block and she goes around infecting every machine she gets to. She puts it on everything.
> But the other thing is that she lives in incognito mode. She’s a total nightmare for advertisers, because she’s not leaving any cookies and she’s not seeing any ads.
Digital privacy is an undeniable rising trend. Just stating the vast majority of people are not using adblock is, at minimum, shortsighted.
[1]: http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/04/the-economists-tom-standage...
Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
by ionised on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:18AM
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> But the other thing is that she lives in incognito mode. She’s a total nightmare for advertisers, because she’s not leaving any cookies and she’s not seeing any ads.
Seems like she has the right idea to be honest.
Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:37AM
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> She’s a total nightmare for advertisers
Poor things, back to not knowing which 50% of the budget they're wasting, like it's the XX century.
The horror.
Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
by RussianCow on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:28PM
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Do you have a source for this? Your statement doesn't carry any weight if you can't back it up. Anecdotally, I have seen a rise in non-tech-savvy people using ad blockers, but I'd be interested to see some hard data.