Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by einpoklum on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:03PM (#31855129)

> are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365

Are they though? Do you know this for a fact? I mean, sure, MS Office is very popular in government settings, but does this really go beyond the possibility of just replacing it with LibreOffice if they so decided?

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by TurningCanadian on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:35PM (#31855927)

Sharing a link to a document that others can edit in the cloud is much more convenient than emailing around a _final_v3(2).docx document.

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by einpoklum on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:56AM (#31859265)

Well... there's Collabora online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQFTkFaYlo

or Box/DropBox/other cloud storage services, which is less convenient than proper collaborative in-pace editing, but you can still get the file at the link, edit it and upload it.

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by abarwick on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:55PM (#31856114)

I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.

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Re:Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics by oska on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:16PM (#31856898)

> Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.

You've just identified one very good reason that they shouldn't be dependent on a single, proprietary vendor.

Really, I was surprised to find your original comment on Hacker News, especially with you ironically fronting it with calling other people naive.

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