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Re:Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy ... by eecc on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:04AM (#23624946)
Oh yes they do, and why would you want to break network caching to spy on your users? You can always add some little js to ping your server (logs! Again!) or a non-cacheable tracking pixel.
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Re:Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy ... by baddox on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:49AM (#23625262)
Sure, you can do that. Google Analytics is merely a free version of that service.
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Re:Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy ... by bengale on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:22AM (#23625495)
Free to you, the user pays with their data. This is apple giving the user the option not to subsidise the website operator.
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Re:Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy ... by 0-O-0 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:18AM (#23626232)
Tracking (especially first party) is not some shadowy value extraction scheme. You need at least some data to improve your service and understand what brings traffic to your page.
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Re:Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy ... by tennineeight on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:41AM (#23626366)
The developer also pays. By giving Google their entire viewer/user base, so Google knows whom to target if they decide to create an alternative.
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