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> Now I wish Google had never touched them. Would you be willing to elaborate?
by PaulStatezny 2y ago
> Now I wish Google had never touched them.
Would you be willing to elaborate?
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoI don’t think “Google bad” needs elaboration in 2024.
- jonas21 2y agoMany of the things people think are bad about Google in 2024 (trackers, targeting, slurping up user data, etc) came from Urchin.
- taf2 2y agoThe bad IMO originated from double click
- jlarocco 2y agoI'm not so sure. Google already had a reputation for slurping up user data, even in 2008 before they bought DoubleClick. It's a no brainer that a targetted advertising company can target ads better if they have as much information about the users as possible. In 2008, DoubleClick's over the top, obnoxious advertising (banner ads, punch the monkey, etc.) was slowing down in favor of Google's more discrete advertising and data collection. They may have caught on and turned it around eventually, but Google bought them up first.
- davidwinters 2y agoAfter the switch to Google Analytics the heat map feature was dropped pretty quickly and it was one of the features I really enjoyed. I also think it would have been better for us in the long run to have paid for a service that let us maintain control over our data.
- greenavocado 2y agoYandex Metrica has free heatmap