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> Those metrics come at the cost of spying on your users. You can do analytics without doing Google Analytics. More people need to understand this. There is no
by deckard1 5y ago
> Those metrics come at the cost of spying on your users.
You can do analytics without doing Google Analytics. More people need to understand this. There is nothing wrong with analytics (other than code/network bloat from overuse). Every website you connect to already has your IP address, browser info, referrer site, etc.
> Just ask your users what they want.
Jesus no. Do you even understand why we do analytics in the first place? We do analytics because you can't trust users to actually say what they want. The analytics tells you exactly what users are doing.
And yes, analytics tells you that some weirdo is browsing your site at 20px wide. No one is spending money and time designing anything for the outliers.
- inetknght 5y ago> Jesus no. Do you even understand why we do analytics in the first place? Yes. > We do analytics because you can't trust users to actually say what they want. False. > The analytics tells you exactly what users are doing. At the cost of their privacy you get to learn what people are doing. That still doesn't tell you what they want.