Don't use Google Analytics

Web devs - do you use Google Analytics? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7vzga6/web_devs_do_you_use_google_analytics/ 13 comments 7/2/2018 privacy

How to use Google analytics effectively? https://moz.com/blog/absolute-beginners-guide-to-google-analytics 4 comments 17/11/2017 ecommerce

Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/google-penalizes-you-for-using-google-analytics 12 comments 5/5/2021 webdev

Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/google-penalizes-you-for-using-google-analytics 2 comments 5/5/2021 frontend

Security Fuckup: about:addons uses Google Analytics https://twitter.com/nicolaspetton/status/884694176515936256 148 comments 12/7/2017 firefox

Using Google Analytics to subvert privacy http://www.tssci-security.com/archives/2007/09/12/using-google-analytics-to-subvert-privacy/ 5 comments 17/9/2007 programming

Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/advanced-google-analytics/ 2 comments 12/6/2007 reddit.com

Using Google Analytics to test Responsive web designs. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/28/responsive-web-design-google-analytics/ 3 comments 15/9/2014 web_design

MLB.com is using my Google Analytics tracking code. http://www.websanova.com/blog/articles/websanova-is-tracking-mlb-com 95 comments 27/3/2014 technology

The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/ 26 comments 16/2/2017 javascript

Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors (using Google Analytics) http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/improve-the-user-experience-by-tracking-errors/ 3 comments 12/10/2011 web_design

maOS power users: did you know that brew uses Google Analytics? https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bkypkg/maos_power_users_did_you_know_that_brew_uses/ 8 comments 6/5/2019 degoogle

maOS power users: did you know that brew uses Google Analytics? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bkypkg/maos_power_users_did_you_know_that_brew_uses/ 18 comments 5/5/2019 opensource

maOS power users: did you know that brew uses Google Analytics? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bkypkg/maos_power_users_did_you_know_that_brew_uses/ 42 comments 5/5/2019 privacy

Use Google Analytics to generate your own 75x18 interpolated graphs (p= is base 36) https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/sparkline?p=0055009900ff00mm00zz00 9 comments 9/6/2007 programming

Exfiltrating User’s Private Data Using Google Analytics to Bypass CSP https://medium.com/@amirshk/exfiltrating-users-private-data-using-google-analytics-to-bypass-csp-5f91eb3b880 18 comments 17/6/2020 netsec

How to track every site you deploy using 1 Google Analytic tracking code http://www.purplecs.com/news/tabid/95/id/69/omnipresent-google-analytics.aspx 5 comments 21/11/2013 web_design

Log javascript errors using Google Analytics [x-post from /r/programming] http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/client-side-error-logging-with-google-analytics?r=378 5 comments 5/4/2012 javascript

40% still use the Google Analytics script that was discontinued in 2007. Have YOU upgraded your site? http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/04/08/40-still-use-old-google-analytics-script/ 10 comments 8/4/2009 programming

Are there any ways to suppress Sever side analytics using Google Tag Manager? https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html 11 comments 21/2/2022 ublockorigin

Privacy blunder? Firefox's Get Add-ons page uses Google Analytics https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/13/privacy-blunder-firefox-getaddons-page-google-analytics/ 29 comments 26/11/2017 linux

Google Allows Chrome Apps and Extension Developers To Track Their Users Using Google Analytics http://browserfame.com/2024/chrome-analytics-extension-app-usage-tracking 3 comments 11/8/2013 chrome

Using Google Analytics from a Rust Wasm Front-End Web App https://medium.com/@matt_78276/using-google-analytics-from-a-rust-wasm-front-end-web-app-12840c420dad 6 comments 21/2/2020 rust

Audacity binaries apparently may come with built in Telemetry (using Google Analytics and Yandex) https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835 7 comments 9/5/2021 gamedev

Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) warns: “Use of Google Analytics will soon likely not be allowed” https://twitter.com/PrivaSense/status/1481693907947773958 50 comments 13/1/2022 web_design

Opt-out of Google Analytics (not sure if this will work in the US, I just used a VPN, went to UK Google, and it offered me installing this) https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-gb 4 comments 30/11/2020 firefox

Use of Google Analytics and data transfers to the United States: the CNIL orders a website manager/operator to comply https://www.cnil.fr/en/use-google-analytics-and-data-transfers-united-states-cnil-orders-website-manageroperator-comply 2 comments 10/2/2022 technology

Firefox nightly does not allow me to block Google analytics. I can block it on desktop though. You can block them using privacy badger. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/j2kmyl 4 comments 30/9/2020 firefox

So my favorite website is using google analytics. I can opt-out by downloading a google addon in my browser. Is this a joke? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/a3q699/so_my_favorite_website_is_using_google_analytics/ 6 comments 6/12/2018 privacy

German authorities declare the use of web analytics tools such as Google Analytics is illegal without the consent of the person being tracked. http://www.research-live.com/features/the-new-rules-of-web-analytics-in-germany/4001603.article 4 comments 5/1/2010 reddit.com

Glenn Beck Attacks Google on site running Google AdWords, Google Analytics and searchable using site-based Google Search http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/16/from-the-show-reduce-your-google-use/ 7 comments 20/2/2011 reddit.com

I'm no dev but thanks to open-source solutions, today I'm able to launch a static blog free of Google Analytics, using a self-hosted open-source analytics solution (Matomo) implementing IP anonymization & cookie non-propagation https://tokenbrice.xyz/posts/2020/hello-world/ 4 comments 6/5/2020 privacy

Judge in Google case disturbed that even 'Incognito' users are tracked - Google is accused of relying on pieces of its code within websites that use its analytics and advertising services to scrape users’ supposedly private browsing history and send copies of it to Google’s servers https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/judge-in-google-case-disturbed-that-even-incognito-users-are-tracked-1.1569065 97 comments 26/2/2021 worldnews

Firefox does NOT ping Google Analytics on startup. However, a test sent to a small set of users had GA track basic usage of it, and it ignored telemetry pref. (Moz has contract with GA, they can't use the data at all.) Mozilla is reviewing their analytics: "If we did fuck up, we'll publicly own it." https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6nbr1w/clarifying_some_things_about_the_thread_removed/ 73 comments 15/7/2017 privacy