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Nothing is “free”. You are selling Google your visitor’s data so that they can let you take a peek at a subset of what they collect.
by DevKoala 7y ago
Nothing is “free”. You are selling Google your visitor’s data so that they can let you take a peek at a subset of what they collect.
- hk__2 7y ago> Nothing is “free” Can we stop with this nitpicking? You’re not paying any money, so it’s “free”. That Google analyses your data is another story: it could do it whether you’re paying or not.
- DevKoala 7y agoGoogle cannot analyze your user traffic if they don't have a pixel on your site. What are they going to do? Look at your traffic logs? Designing a website that has traffic insights while respecting your visitor's privacy requires effort. If you want to delegate the insights, you can pay for it or let Google look at your data. The data goes straight into their ad exchange analysis. In fact, you cannot publish Google ads on your site unless you have had google analytics running on your site for a while.