How many websites use strictly client-side tracking vs. how many rely on server-side tracking (log analysis)?
Or to look at it from the other side: Do enough people use #TrackingBlockers to significantly change the demographics that go into the KPIs that then influence the content that is produced?
Websites that rely solely on #GoogleAnalytics to see what content is well received will never know what I am interested in. @Vivaldi blocks trackers by default, which means that Vivaldi users will be severely under-represented in editorial meetings. But even with server-side analytics, the demographic that is being analysed is skewed: @Mastodon discreetly drops the referer, while Twitter proudly boasts who delivered the traffic.
Sigh, I spent hours and hours working with a client to figure out why #GoogleAnalytics stopped being reported for their #Drupal site. Turns out to be a two line bug in the google_tag module that made a checkbox checked by default no matter what value was selected before.
Rather than “upgrade” #GoogleAnalytics for the (very few, very small) sites I manage, I’m thinking I’ll just remove it. I can’t be arsed w “content marketing,” don’t do ads, scarcely look at the stats anyway … and Google is so far down the #enshittification path, I don’t see much of a downside. What am I missing?
For six months, game developers in steam do not use google analytics, and I really miss this tool, namely this screen where you could see in real time how players from different countries enter the game page
Today I learned that when #GA4 records a file download, it truncates the file path to 100 characters.
So if you have very long URLs for some files (which our website does), your download reports may have a bunch of 100-character file names that combine all hits for files below that level into a single entry.
Who would intentionally include a 100-character limit when working with any sort of URL!?!
HalfDot is a minimalistic client for Umami: an open-source privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
HalfDot does not have any tracking, ads, and it follows the Material Design 3 guidelines.
Hey @JoeRess, your comment on a recent Late Night Linux podcast discussing Google's latest dystopian shenanigans got me thinking. It's important to separate advertising from tracking/profiling. We had ads on tv, radio and in newspapers for decades and the bargain being made was reasonably clear, these companies support this thing I like and they get to run their ads - fair play. The gross intrusion into privacy that is the online advertising caper - different story! #googleanalytics#ads
#EU#Sweden#Privacy#BigTech#Google#GoogleAnalytics: "In the blog post — which is entitled “Companies must stop using Google Analytics” — the regulator added that the four decisions should be treated as guidance, emphasizing what it couched as wider implications. (Update: Since this article was published the Swedish watchdog has slightly edited the title of its post, which now refers more specifically to the four instances where it has ordered companies to stop using the tool: “Four companies must stop using Google Analytics”.)"
DSGVO-Strafe: Tele2 muss eine Million Euro zahlen wegen Google Analytics
Die schwedische Datenschutzbehörde bittet erstmals zwei Firmen für den Einsatz von Google Analytics zur Kasse. Getroffene Schutzmaßnahmen reichten nicht.
@heiseonline es gibt durchaus auch Möglichkeiten, das Senden von GA4 Tracking Requests an einen eigenen Server in der EU umzusetzen, ohne dass vom Browser des Nutzers überhaupt ein Request direkt an Google geht. Die eigentliche Frage ist aber unabhängig von Google Analytics: Darf eine europäische Firma auf ihrer Webseite Elemente einbinden, die Anfragen an US Server senden? Wann gibt es ein Nachfolger des Privacy Shield Abkommens? #GoogleAnalytics
Sverige joined Österreich, France, and Italia in ruling use of Google Analytics violates GDPR.
I am proud of Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY) for the ruling and being the first regulatory agency to issue fines and conclusively rule that Google’s “supplementary measures” for EU businesses are inadequate.
Thank you, @noybeu, for the legal activism strengthening GDPR as an effective consumer protection.
#GoogleAnalytics is a giant surveillance machine that extracts enormous amounts of personal data, combines it with more personal data collected by other services in the Google ecosystem, and feeds it to the privacy dumpster fire that is the real-time bidding system.
Updated my site to move away from #GoogleAnalytics to Umami! GA has been great, but time for a change and just need something simple. It is encouraging seeing the analytics of you content, but I don't need to sell you anything either. Google was making something simple, complicated and profiting from it as well.
Google Analitycs: a seguito delle 101 denunce di noyb sui trasferimenti illegali di dati UE-USA, il Garante Privacy svedese ha sanzionato 4 società
@eticadigitale
Le aziende tra cui #Tele2 e il rivenditore online #CDON hano usato #GoogleAnalytics sulla loro pagina web.
Questa è la prima sanzione pecuniaria imposta alle aziende per l'utilizzo di #GAnalytics, nonostante le sentenze della CGUE sui trasferimenti di dati UE-USA. #privacy
cc @quinta@Shamar@pirati
@jcrabapple
It's nice yes, but I don't easily trust a company with my data, that uses #googleanalytics at least they are located in Europe making them comply fully with GDPR