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Call me paranoid but I would rather not see this being utilized to much. Personally I block Google Analytics (along other tracking scripts) and many people use

Call me paranoid but I would rather not see this being utilized to much. Personally I block Google Analytics (along other tracking scripts) and many people use Adblock. If you start moving your important scripts and stylesheets to Google they will still be able to track you throughout the web.

LogicX 15y ago
Tracking available via Google Analytics != the tracking Google could achieve by having your site use their CDN. Google Analytics is a browser-side javascript code. Static content loaded through them would not send cookies^, there would be no dynamic URLs with session IDs. The best they could do is track by IP, which they also probably wouldn't bother with across the globally dispersed CDN network. ^ Should not
- jackalope 15y ago
  IP address + User-Agent + Referer is a potent combination for tracking, even without cookies, and is available to all CDNs.
  - LogicX 15y ago
    True, this is possible, and they could combine this information with IP + UA when you are visiting google properties that also have the google analytics code in it. Though depending on the network you're on (how many people are NAT'd behind that IP), and how generic your User-Agent string is, this could be useless. Comparison from Urchin (owned by google): http://www.urchintools.com/urchin6/configuration/tracking-methods http://www.urchintools.com/urchin6/configuration/tracking-me...