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Google Analytics Irony

Comments highlight the irony of privacy-focused sites and tools using Google Analytics despite its tracking concerns, debating its ethics, alternatives, and prevalence on the web.

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malikNF • Apr 12, 2017 • View on HN

But they still have google analytics on their site.

panta82 • Feb 28, 2021 • View on HN

As a user of google analytics, I don't know any of that.

nottorp • Jun 10, 2024 • View on HN

They may be using google analytics, for example.

jtmarmon • Jun 9, 2016 • View on HN

i find it hard to believe google analytics is "not well known enough"...does this do something different?

thaeli • Nov 25, 2021 • View on HN

Has Google Analytics on it though, so..

chpmrc • Sep 19, 2018 • View on HN

Did Google just install your tool? https://simpleanalytics.io/google.com :)

Sideloader • Jun 11, 2015 • View on HN

Funny...Google Analytics is tracking the site.

wizzwizz4 • Aug 18, 2020 • View on HN

Does this work for anything other than Google Analytics?

h3ckr • Apr 22, 2020 • View on HN

Aren't literally all websites with Google Analytics doing this? I never saw anyone writing about it, lol

ForHackernews • Feb 26, 2019 • View on HN

Google Analytics isn't an advertisement, it's a tracking system.