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Re:Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in stri... by lhorie on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:07PM (#26281352)
What's really clever is that at the scale that GA is deployed, it's really really hard for Google to willy-nilly break API just to get around this because a lot of webmasters will simply not bother updating their scripts, and if Google forcefully pushes a breaking change, people might stop using GA, or worse, they get an avalanche of bad PR for breaking half the web.
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Re:Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in stri... by elemos on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:23PM (#26281811)
I don’t think this is true. GA has at least 2 versions it doesnt support in the past decade.

I imagine the opposite is true, in that they hold so much power they can do as they please.

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Re:Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in stri... by lhorie on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:39PM (#26281897)
My understanding is they are veeery careful around rolling out changes and deprecations. The cleverness is that there's a huge asymmetry in how fast Firefox can globally deploy updated shims vs how fast Google can change GA API.
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