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Re:Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in stri... by cmod on Saturday February 27, 2021 @03:29AM (#26283502)
Less about stopping analytics and more about stopping privacy-malicious analytics (which google analytics could arguably be defined as). Install a privacy friendly analytics package and I suspect it won’t be much blocked.
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Re:Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in stri... by panta82 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:00PM (#26289703)
That'd be a reasonable counter-point if extensions like uBlock Origin weren't also blocking self-hosted analytics packages, like Matomo.

I think people in general have gotten so sick of ad powered big tech they are having a bit of an over-reaction against analytics in general, not just google's product.

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