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>> But that data is reasonably only accessible by the people who instrumented that tracking. ... and Google... and the people they sell aggregated traffic data
by calrain 2y ago
>> But that data is reasonably only accessible by the people who instrumented that tracking.
... and Google... and the people they sell aggregated traffic data to...
CloudFlare (e.g. NSA [joke!]) also gets a truckload of data from each web call, and your ISP, and the hosts of any <script> tags, and the image hosts, and all the engagement tracking plugins in your site...
The list is endless
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- notpushkin 2y agoYeah, it’s not like Google spins up a separate DB for you when you sign up for Analytics – everything’s in one pile, ready to be mined for that sweet sweet user data. (That’s the reason there’s such a generous free tier for website owners, of course.)