Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast

Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by musicale on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:22PM (#26268497)

And you can turn it off. ;-)

I guess the point is not that crash reports and slowdown data aren't useful (they are), but that they tend to give you incremental improvements.

That being said, incremental improvements over a decade can make a big difference, as Apple also demonstrates.

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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by pcstl on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:42PM (#26268707)

I guess we can all agree that if someone wants to include analytics in their product, an opt-out would be nice.

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Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast by XCSme on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:39AM (#26274163)

Well, you can't really opt-out of all analytics. It's really hard to completely stop all server logs, or them tracking how many purchases you make (eg. invoices).

Where exactly do we draw the line to what's core for a company to track in order to run their business and what can be opt-out?

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