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worth mentioning, google analytics does this too. and it's probably on more websites than facebook like buttons. also, you don't need to opt in to anything to a
by etherealG 15y ago
worth mentioning, google analytics does this too. and it's probably on more websites than facebook like buttons. also, you don't need to opt in to anything to activate google's version, at least with facebook you have to have an account. with google all you have to do is visit these sites with cookies switched on, something pretty much everyone does without thinking.
- nl 15y agoI wish everyone would stop repeating this. Like most things it is much more subtle than that. Google Analytics is widespread, but unlike Facebook it gives you the tools to protect your privacy if you so choose. That is an important difference and is worth noting.
- etherealG 15y agofair enough, I didn't intend to be repeating an untrue mantra. could you explain how I would opt out? I know they provide privacy controls to opt out of web search history, but analytics on a clean browser will assign me a unique id, it will then use that id to track me on every page I go to, without even being logged in to any google services at all. that sounds like being opted in without my consent to me. maybe I'm wrong and I missed it, how would I protect my privacy in this (very widespread) case?
- hussong 15y agoGoogle offers browser add-ons to opt out of analytics tracking: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout