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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by sjburt on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:47PM (#21391814)
My guess was that it was just seen as easier to drop in a third party analytics component in as opposed to doing via their own backend.
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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by itronitron on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:09PM (#21392053)
years ago, at a previous employer of mine, one of the IT staff members was giving a presentation on an internal website/app they created for some widely used business function (i don't recall exactly) and they were rather proud of the fact that they tied in Google Analytics so that they could get a better view on how people were using the site.

I expect that a lot of other companies are also doing this to themselves...

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Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com by therealdrag0 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:14PM (#21394371)
Every project I've ever worked on has used analytics; it's super useful.
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