Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by platz on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:56AM (#28366237)

Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move. Psychologically, It's not unlike NIMBYism or residents of a gated community that figured out how to avoid paying their taxes.

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Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by batch12 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:28AM (#28367091)

These poor, poor ad companies are being taken advantage of by me. I have no shame. I even immorally block ads on thousands of endpoints used by other people! Quite the tragedy!

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Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by raxxorrax on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @09:45AM (#28367971)

You mean because the free internet is infrastructure belonging to all and ads are its maintenance?

I fundamentally disagree with this parable. I don't think common practices in advertising are a necessity, especially when it comes to analytics.

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Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by JohnFen on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:53PM (#28370462)

> Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move.

Adblocking is a reasonable defense against the constant and expanding abuse (of both people and the commons) that the ad industry brought on us.

For the record, I don't engage in ad blocking as such. I block scripts, which has the side effect of blocking much of the more abusive ads. However, reasonable ads aren't blocked at all -- it's just that there aren't many reasonable ads on the internet.

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Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by dang on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:10PM (#28371447)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365335.

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Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics by devilduck on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:40AM (#28367241)

This is a hilarious take, thanks for the laugh!

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