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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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