While I agree in principle, this kind of observation is getting awfully close to mister gotcha[1]. Whenever the topic of, for example, google analytics comes up

While I agree in principle, this kind of observation is getting awfully close to mister gotcha[1]. Whenever the topic of, for example, google analytics comes up on HN, many reasons are given for why the alternatives are inferior. And that's from people intimately familiar with the tech. I'm not sure how you can expect a site whose revenue probably comes exclusively from Google ads to be able to effectively resist the Google/Facebook duopoly. [1] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/