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Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017) by dehrmann on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:45AM (#22455336)
I get where you're coming from, and this is a problem, but this isn't a practical or pragmatic stance. Typical web/app tracking is orders of magnitude cheaper than research.

> Yes, it costs more to collect the data manually.

Not just that, but you also get data biased to people willing to spend two hours answering questions for a $25 Amazon gift card.

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Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017) by CivBase on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:55AM (#22455366)
> Not just that, but you also get data biased to people willing to spend two hours answering questions for a $25 Amazon gift card.

Sure, but the whole point of this article was that the telemetry data is also biased.

There is no magic bullet. Your options are to get biased data the cheap way or the ethical way. Either way, the data is biased and you have to consider that when making decisions.

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Re:How many users block Google analytics? (2017) by neiman on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:11AM (#22455607)
> Typical web/app tracking is orders of magnitude cheaper than research.

It doesn't just ethics, and I think it should be "first, do no harm", as in, first, be ethical.

Btw, opt-in metrics are ethical and cheap afaik. As for biased? all metrics are biased...

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