As the funding dries up the community will close ranks even more so. We are already getting to the point on this forum where anything not outwardly positive (not even "negative") said about certain subjects is instantly donwvoted. Being as how downvoting is something that requires 500 karma, these are not bots or spam accounts; they are veteran members, preventing balanced discourse from occurring ("slow down").
"We have a contract with [analytics company]. They are not allowed to look at the data."
When you suggest that a contract might not be as good as physical limitations hosting it yourself give you, they follow up with something like:
"Well, then AWS/Azure/etc. could look at it!"
What I found drives the increase of tracking on the web in big corporations, is simply the number of teams, who want data. Data is used to play internal politics. And it is easier to get a new vendor in, than to get data from a hostile team.
I'm sure this stern talking to really made them evaluate their life choices. We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned. We all have to be the change we want to see.