> Sadly, we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.” The only thing "wro

> Sadly, we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.” The only thing "wrong" with using an analytics service to better understand your customers is that it places all knowledge of visits, including ones that wished to be private, in a centralized location. This can be useful in providing correlation data across all visitors in aggregate, such as which browser you should make sure your site supports most of the time. In other words, there exists some data in aggregate that is valuable to all of us, but the cost is a loss of privacy for smaller sets of personal data. If individuals don't want certain behaviors analyzed by others, then they shouldn't use centralized services which exist outside their realm of control. These individuals would be better off using a "website" that is hosted by themselves, inside their own four walls, running on their own equipment. A simple way for SpiderOak to address this is to put their website on IPFS or something similar. I appreciate the fact that SpiderOak is thinking about these things. It's important!