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This is not true. One can make a product better without relying on analytics. Sure, it takes more time (and probably more skilled people) but it's possible. The

• AmericanChopper 6y ago
  GA is just one tool, and it’s not even the best one (though the better tools are often worse privacy-wise). But client side analytics will always be able to deliver UX insights that you’ll simply never be able to get any other way. If you had two equivalently skilled and resourced product teams, one would always be at a disadvantage to the other if only one of them was using client-side analytics tooling. That said, product teams that are actually good enough to gather and productively use that sort of data aren’t very common, so switching off client-side analytics probably wouldn’t make much difference to most organisations. Page hits and error stats can be pretty easy to make use of, but you can get that from server logs.