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Not that quick. Third-party analytics masquerading as first-party analytics is a thing: https://github.com/SukkaW/cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics http

Not that quick. Third-party analytics masquerading as first-party analytics is a thing: https://github.com/SukkaW/cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics https://github.com/SukkaW/cloudflare-workers-async-google-an...

rcMgD2BwE72F 6y ago
Still far more efficient that Google's opt out tool.
- studius 6y ago
  And the most efficient would be not opting out. Analytics are actually beneficial as they drive support for the type of browser and OS used. I'd like to understand how opting-out of Google Analytics would spare you much from the massive big data tracking done via other JS libraries, ads, and especially mobile app use. Go onto any large news site, ecommerce platform, realty/home search site, etc. and look at the network tab in your Web Developer view. Commerce may in good part "run" the world, but that traffic will expand as bandwidth expands; what data will they want to track next? => using cameras and audio everywhere to determine what your mood is, what you're talking about, what you say you want. Anything with a mic or camera could be doing this today, in theory, but the bandwidth isn't there to support it. How can we avoid this? Should we stop WiFi and just wire our homes well, then plug-in and enable cellular data only when we sit down or really need it? It seems almost unavoidable, and that we've become too reliant on these things if privacy is the goal. And the bureaucratic EU policies on privacy seem like a simple game of chess for big data companies; we're responsible for this.
  - djsumdog 6y ago
    I don't run any analytics on my personal site. I just use awstats and web logs.
kawsper 6y ago
> Recently cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics has been blocked by EasyList. Great Job though. So I am going to play a cat & mouse game now. It was blockable, but the author decided to rename the file to jquery.js.
- folkrav 6y ago
  Woah, that guy seems dead set on providing Google with everyone's metadata for some reason. As if we didn't have enough to worry about on the internet.
- sneak 6y ago
  It's still blockable, you just need to install NoScript.
  - vifon 6y ago
    Would the uBlock dynamic filters not suffice?
    - djsumdog 6y ago
      uBlock Origin does have support for blocking all Javascript (and webfonts) and enabling them on a per-site basis.
- rq1 6y ago
  So they start to use malware techniques to get into your computer... I'm retaining myself to quote the famous "If it looks like a duck, moves like a duck...", but I won't. :-) That's another reason to use LocalCDN[0]. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...
  - fidelramos 6y ago
    I see that LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes [0]. Personally I'm very careful with the extensions I install in my browsers, but the new features of LocalCDN are interesting, I hope they get picked up by upstream at some point. [0] https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/

rcMgD2BwE72F 6y ago

Still far more efficient that Google's opt out tool.

studius 6y ago
And the most efficient would be not opting out. Analytics are actually beneficial as they drive support for the type of browser and OS used. I'd like to understand how opting-out of Google Analytics would spare you much from the massive big data tracking done via other JS libraries, ads, and especially mobile app use. Go onto any large news site, ecommerce platform, realty/home search site, etc. and look at the network tab in your Web Developer view. Commerce may in good part "run" the world, but that traffic will expand as bandwidth expands; what data will they want to track next? => using cameras and audio everywhere to determine what your mood is, what you're talking about, what you say you want. Anything with a mic or camera could be doing this today, in theory, but the bandwidth isn't there to support it. How can we avoid this? Should we stop WiFi and just wire our homes well, then plug-in and enable cellular data only when we sit down or really need it? It seems almost unavoidable, and that we've become too reliant on these things if privacy is the goal. And the bureaucratic EU policies on privacy seem like a simple game of chess for big data companies; we're responsible for this.
- djsumdog 6y ago
  I don't run any analytics on my personal site. I just use awstats and web logs.

kawsper 6y ago

> Recently cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics has been blocked by EasyList. Great Job though. So I am going to play a cat & mouse game now. It was blockable, but the author decided to rename the file to jquery.js.

folkrav 6y ago
Woah, that guy seems dead set on providing Google with everyone's metadata for some reason. As if we didn't have enough to worry about on the internet.
sneak 6y ago
It's still blockable, you just need to install NoScript.
- vifon 6y ago
  Would the uBlock dynamic filters not suffice?
  - djsumdog 6y ago
    uBlock Origin does have support for blocking all Javascript (and webfonts) and enabling them on a per-site basis.
rq1 6y ago
So they start to use malware techniques to get into your computer... I'm retaining myself to quote the famous "If it looks like a duck, moves like a duck...", but I won't. :-) That's another reason to use LocalCDN[0]. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...
- fidelramos 6y ago
  I see that LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes [0]. Personally I'm very careful with the extensions I install in my browsers, but the new features of LocalCDN are interesting, I hope they get picked up by upstream at some point. [0] https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/