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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by dheera on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:16PM (#26266087)
PSA: Add this to /etc/hosts if you don't want other sites collecting info from you via Google Analytics/Ads

    0.0.0.0 googleanalytics.com
    0.0.0.0 googlesyndication.com
A more complete list of things worth adding to /etc/hosts here (I'm not affiliated with this):

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by userbinator on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:12PM (#26270462)
I've always had the ones with the dash, since they are what's mentioned in the official docs ( https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... ):

    0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
    0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
    0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com
I'm not sure what googleanalytics.com is for, however; but I'll add it to my HOSTS, in any case.
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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by ss64 on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:06AM (#26273963)
The only supported way to block GA without breaking pages is to use a plug-in https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

No doubt your use of the plug in is logged somewhere.

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