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I don't get it. SpiderOak states that they dropped GA because it furthers "the erosion of privacy on the web.”, but then they just started tracking in house. H
by sghiassy 11y ago
I don't get it. SpiderOak states that they dropped GA because it furthers "the erosion of privacy on the web.”, but then they just started tracking in house.
How is tracking in house more private than GA? The user is still being tracked.
- softyeti 11y agoI believe their point was that they want to track their traffic, but when they use a third party like Google, Google provides tracking services for SpiderOak, Google also tracks you as well, which SpiderOak has no control over.
- stonemetal 11y agoWith it in house it is under their control: they can anonymize it, not collect certain information, they can't cross index it with your traffic from other sites, etc.
- distances 11y agoGoogle likely (or at least theoretically) has the capability to track the user across all the sites that use GA. In-house tracking doesn't allow this.