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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by Avamander on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:35AM (#22118385)
This really reminds me of the infamous "you can just use FTP instead of Dropbox" comment.
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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by tombert on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:14AM (#22118780)
I don't disagree, but in a bit of fairness, a lot of people just use GA for page-counts and basic correlation stuff...you could do that in a relatively small amount of frontend JS stuff and a slightly-more-complex backend API to handle the basic correlation stuff.

That said, that will only do about .01% of all the features of GA; like the infamous "FTP vs. Dropbox" the premise itself isn't exactly "wrong", just missing a bigger point.

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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by MadWombat on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:48PM (#22119978)
Could you link me to the FTP vs. Dropbox discussion? I am curious. I haven't used either for years and the implication seems to be that there is a profound difference, so I wonder what it is.
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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by winthrowe on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:58PM (#22120111)
This is the 'infamous' original thread in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by MadWombat on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:55PM (#22122473)
That is cute, thank you.
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