Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt-In Button

Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by polote on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:20AM (#17166615)

Why would you want to opt out from Google Analytics seriously ?

They just record on what you click, and have no (and will never have) idea of who you are.

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Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by yoz-y on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:23AM (#17166625)

Google Anlytics provides only aggregate data to the site owners. But I think that Google themselves use it to improve their ad targeting algorithms, because why wouldn’t they?

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Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by ascorbic on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:27AM (#17166632)

Yes, exactly this. Even if site has enabled IP anonimity, Google still has the tracking cookies.

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Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by dbbk on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:37PM (#17167703)

Yeah IPs are only used for determining location I believe.

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Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by butz on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:15AM (#17166767)

If Advertising features in Google Analytics are enabled, then your data might be used for remarketing, also collected data might be shared with Google for benchmarking, tech. support and account specialists. You can disable this, though https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397

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Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt... by dbbk on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:37PM (#17167697)

Not necessarily true, they have a User ID feature that can tie your site's user accounts to their Google Analytics behaviour.

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