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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by hedora on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:09PM (#22814821)
There is no comprehensive opt out to Google tracking. If you disagree, show me the button that opts out of doubleclick (and all Google subsidiaries and data sharing partners) targeting ads at my home IP address, cell phone, car, etc.
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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by cameronbrown on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:01PM (#22815343)
Analytics: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-o...

Ads: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iba-opt-out-by-goo...

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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by aiiane on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:14PM (#22814878)
https://adssettings.google.com/
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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by ses1984 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:20PM (#22814937)
Opting out of targeted ads is NOT the same as opting out of tracking.
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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by joshuamorton on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:56PM (#22815304)
But it's what GP asked for.

I'm also unclear on whether "opting out of tracking" under the definition you're implying is possible. Any entity tracking you needs to track that you've opted out of tracking, which requires tracking you. Whoops.

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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by ses1984 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:39AM (#22822406)
I reject the idea that you have to be tracked to not be tracked.

Imagine a system where you opt in to tracking, if you are not opted in, no data about you is written into any system used for business analysis.

Of course you can't/shouldn't stop all writes to your systems, like server access logs, but you can draw a line between operational and business data.

Of course if you have access to both operational and business data sets you can analyze data for people who have not opted in, but I would rather live in a world where we at least try to enforce a separation between the two.

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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by dheera on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:55PM (#22815293)
Just add

  0.0.0.0         google-analytics.com
  0.0.0.0         www.google-analytics.com
to your /etc/hosts if you want a comprehensive opt-out.
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Re:An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website by nsgi on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:26PM (#22815004)
You can opt out of all data sharing in Google Analytics on the account settings page.

There are also ways to opt out of ad targeting but that's irrelevant to this discussion.

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