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I think a fair portion of the people who are consciously blocking GA might think that beaming back a ton of information to the Google mothership is also "being
by rmxt 12y ago
I think a fair portion of the people who are consciously blocking GA might think that beaming back a ton of information to the Google mothership is also "being dick," because they don't want ad-tracking profiles to be built for them based on their browsing habits across millions of websites.
If you want to balance the desires of your privacy-savvy users and your craving for analytics, why not use Piwik and self-host it on your own domain? No external requests, and no information back to Google.
- eli 12y agoIt block self-hosted Piwik by default too!
- rmxt 12y agoThanks. Knowing that, I'll probably go out of my way to whitelist 'piwik.js', etc. I'd be willing to trade some personal information to any host wanting to use a self-hosted Piwik instance over a big analytics platform.
- leeoniya 12y agothis is unfortunate. i think anything that's same domain should be allowed through, even 2nd-level might be okay. it's third-party tracking that should be disabled because of cross-domain tracking capability. it's completely unreasonable to expect websites not to do something as simple as tallying unique visitors or recognizing returning customers via cookies/fingerprinting on their own properties.
- falcolas 12y agoTo be fair, "recognizing returning customers via cookies/fingerprinting" by itself doesn't require JavaScript. It's the tracking of the user's activity once the page has loaded which does.
- rudolf0 12y agoThat seems pretty unreasonable. I can see providing an option for it, but blocking it by default is bordering on paranoid.
- vfclists 12y agoThe Piwik block comes from the AdBlock ruleset. It blocks the piwik.js. When you check the statistics and hover the red filter symbol for the Piwik line you will see which rule blocked it.