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You could always respect your users and continue using Google Analytics etc. knowing that some of your users won't be tracked. Does missing out on the few peop

by _f71y 12y ago

You could always respect your users and continue using Google Analytics etc. knowing that some of your users won't be tracked. Does missing out on the few people who use these tools actually have a meaningful effect on your ability to run your business? I understand how the crash reporters help you but do you really need Optimizely/Analytics/MixPanel etc. running on 100% of your client browsers?

bhouston 12y ago
uBlock is going to become very very popular. It isn't just going to be a small percentage of users. It is going to be the majority of tech savvy users. That is the problem. ublock isn't Ghostery or NoScript. It is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything.
- MrTortoise 12y ago
  wait so now your saying that ublock will be used by lots of people who presumably know what it does and therefore you are saying that they are wrong? IF you want to track my data you should be asking me.
- gorhill 12y ago
  > ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything. This is the first sentence on the project page: > µBlock is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker. And toward the end: > Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought. It's not "being sold".
  - bhouston 12y ago
    >> ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything. > It's not "being sold". See definition #7 here of "sold": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sold http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sold "to cause to be accepted, especially generally or widely" And it is, especially when all comparisons are with AdBlock Plus -- people are being told by you that uBlock is a faster, more efficient alternative to ABP: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...

by _f71y 12y ago

bhouston 12y ago

uBlock is going to become very very popular. It isn't just going to be a small percentage of users. It is going to be the majority of tech savvy users. That is the problem. ublock isn't Ghostery or NoScript. It is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything.

MrTortoise 12y ago
wait so now your saying that ublock will be used by lots of people who presumably know what it does and therefore you are saying that they are wrong? IF you want to track my data you should be asking me.
gorhill 12y ago
> ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything. This is the first sentence on the project page: > µBlock is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker. And toward the end: > Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought. It's not "being sold".
- bhouston 12y ago
  >> ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything. > It's not "being sold". See definition #7 here of "sold": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sold http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sold "to cause to be accepted, especially generally or widely" And it is, especially when all comparisons are with AdBlock Plus -- people are being told by you that uBlock is a faster, more efficient alternative to ABP: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...