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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Numblock

    Google Analytics is how Alphabet, Inc. gets to track people on ~64% of the web (https://better.fyi/trackers/google-analytics.com/ …) If developers stopped using it, it would reduce Alpabet, Inc.’s ability to track & profile people considerably. Also: stop using sign-in with Google, embedding YouTube, etc.https://twitter.com/numblockdev/status/978940602644680704 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    Numblock @numblockdev
    Replying to @aral
    Doing this right now, by refusing to implement GA for a client. They're asking for 'proof' of the fact that it's harmful, though. Any links, anyone?
    3:34 AM - 28 Mar 2018
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      2.  🍀‏ @FredBrooker Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        pic.twitter.com/k7KqbHKhAH

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Mar 28
        Replying to @FredBrooker

        Haha, brings back memories :)

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      4.  🍀‏ @FredBrooker Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        FAR is NO memory, it is actual shit :D

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      1. 𝓹𝓮𝓽𝓾𝓻‏ @peturdainn Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        I stopped using GA after I compared it with site log analysis and discovered how many users were blocking GA. The analytics it presented was simply of no use anymore.

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      2. PagoTTi‏ @skeletony Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        Do you know http://alternativeto.net  ? Maybe a site like this for non track tools and resources could be help developers to find alternatives.

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      3. Aaron Wolf‏ @awolftune Mar 28
        Replying to @skeletony @aral

        Note: http://alternativeto.net  uses "free" to mean gratis and "open source" to mean free/libre/open; also the robust FLO analytics option is Piwik. But we should keep questioning the premise of this level of analytics overall. People overrate its value.

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      2. Fabian Pimminger‏ @i_am_fabs Mar 28
        Replying to @aral @georgmolzer

        As far as i know, Google Analytics does NOT track you between sites. But YouTube/Facebook-Embeds do. Analytics is not the enemy here.

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      3. Georg Molzer‏ @georgmolzer Mar 28
        Replying to @i_am_fabs @aral

        Rly? That would really surprise me. But I’d welcome it. Any further info about it?

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      4. Fabian Pimminger‏ @i_am_fabs Mar 28
        Replying to @georgmolzer @aral

        Google Analytics doesn't use third-party cookies - only first-party ones which are different for each domain - and (when used in the proper way) also pseudonymizes IPs.pic.twitter.com/5aAWfJ6E8m

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      1. Rob Allen‏ @RobBluedreamer Mar 28
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        It's really hard weening clients off google products :(

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      1. markhughes‏ @markhughes Mar 28
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        Click through and try some of the links showing what Google has on you. You will be shocked by some of this, so it's important to know. This is not really about you, but the enormous power of those who have this much information about billions of ushttps://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy?__twitter_impression=true …

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      1. Steve Perry‏ @stevemarkperry Mar 28
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        As much as I'd love to (with you 100%), it's always at the request of the client. I'm not sure there's a good way of saying "no" as they will just get someone else to do it?

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      1.  🍀‏ @FredBrooker Mar 28
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        we are about 9 TB, can't

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      1.  🍀‏ @FredBrooker Mar 28
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        nope

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