>> If you think GA is a privacy concern, you should consider services like gmail to be a privacy concern too. Perhaps they should block that too.
I'm not sure what one has to do with another. GA is something developers (or marketers) decide to pull into their sites, exposing their users to having their activity tracked across all sites that use GA. gmail is a product that someone elects to use. Apples and oranges.
>> Paying for it"? GA doesn't do much that a webmaster couldn't otherwise learn by analysing their webserver log files.
That's the unfortunate truth; and there are also many free packages that will do similar things -- all of which can be done without tracking people across most of the sites they visit.
Still, none of them are as quick and convenient as dropping in a line of javascript. I just wish that more developers would give thought to whose data they're giving away when they drop in that line of javascript.
I'm not sure what one has to do with another. GA is something developers (or marketers) decide to pull into their sites, exposing their users to having their activity tracked across all sites that use GA. gmail is a product that someone elects to use. Apples and oranges.
>> Paying for it"? GA doesn't do much that a webmaster couldn't otherwise learn by analysing their webserver log files.
That's the unfortunate truth; and there are also many free packages that will do similar things -- all of which can be done without tracking people across most of the sites they visit.
Still, none of them are as quick and convenient as dropping in a line of javascript. I just wish that more developers would give thought to whose data they're giving away when they drop in that line of javascript.