Google Analytics

“Every platform works this way, they're all set up to put giant red banners on your marketer's dashboards”

“the GA4 version is too confusing and I miss it”

“So you don't self host, you signup for google analytics.”

“I should not have to install a browser plug-in to opt out of Google analytics”

“participating in the internet stalking behaviour by integrating eg google analytics”

“It doesn't guarantee privacy so I would recommend changing it to PostHog”

“TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes”

“I own a small martech business that's a competitor to ga4”

“I have the google analytics import on my business endeavors, but why would I put it into a blog?”

“Google analytics knows exactly who you are the second you access a site that uses Analytics.”

“Not great, and Google uses the data in all sorts of ways that they don't make obvious.”

“people who work for the government to handle medical data still don't know or don't care that google analytics sends data to google”

“It absolutely is that website deciding to trade data about their visitors in exchange for getting something for free.”

“Google uses the data in all sorts of ways that they don't make obvious.”

“perhaps Google analytics might make sense anywhere else except this”

“I can't help but feel frustrated, this is probably gonna negatively impact people who have talked on such suicide prevention websites.”

“It invades privacy like hell and the whole thing needs to be thought about in a different way.”

“"some benefits" is really underselling it though”

“which then correlate entire traffic later-on, what a joke”

“these analytics services are run by advertising companies that may use the data for other purposes”

“Most of the websites you visit are helping them build a profile of everything you do on the internet”

“Really disliked the complexity of GA's setup, especially around ad attribution.”

“make sure google analytics sees it, IDK but that probably matters because monopoly”

“Current analytics tools like GA4 are blind to the AI-to-Site transition.”

“It's awful service in many ways, but because they're free and can afford to be free, they captured 80-90% of web analytics.”

“it constitutes a complete record of UK citizen interactions with their own government, handed over to a US company on a silver platter.”

“GA4 categorizes them as "(not set)" or "Direct" which completely breaks attribution”

“without having the problem of web-wide surveillance that GA provides”

“I joined Google Analytics in 2018 and had no idea that Analytics really meant "Tracking and Remarketing"”

“I don't like the "third-party" aspect of GA but users of the most rudimentary product of that sort want to know how many unique visitors that got”

“every bit of data collected through a google-analytic, doubleclick, etc. link can potentially be abused”

“standard analytics tools (GA4) were stripping the referrer data from newer sources”

“GA4 creates a black box around 'Direct' traffic and struggles with the new wave of AI referrals”

“Google Analytics dumping 40% of my traffic into "Direct" and claiming credit for every sale”

“great to add free Google services that enhanced my site/shared revenue”

“Google Analytics helps rank fast for seo”

“I consider it as malware running on my machine, and will not allow it.”

“Big analytics scripts like GA4 can double or triple page load times.”

“The dashboard and insights they offer are built for enterprise (who has analysts) and not for most of the users.”

“That seems like a bigger personal data leak than OpenAI doing anything here.”