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Personal story: in 2006 in Google Enterprise, we had many, many meetings with the GA team, the goal being a private, inside-the-firewall box that would run GA,
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Personal story: in 2006 in Google Enterprise, we had many, many meetings with the GA team, the goal being a private, inside-the-firewall box that would run GA, using our Google Search Appliance hardware.
This never came to anything.
- k__ 2y agoIn 2006, I worked for a company that built exactly that: A web analytics engine that ran behind the firewall. It would rely on a reverse proxy and not on cookies or pixels, so it couldn't be blocked. They even had some of the biggest sites in Europe as customers. However, the company never turned a profit and after going through the hands of a few investors, they closed shop.
- AlbertCory 2y agoYeah, "inside the firewall" declined as a marketing pitch pretty quickly.
- dylan604 2y agoSecurity over convenience is also something that declined pretty quickly as well followed quickly by the concept of privacy in exchange for convenience. With what we know about how/why/where the use of those analytics are used back then, would we make the same decisions if it was a choice today?