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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: |
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>>> Grant schrieb: |
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>>> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds |
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>>> on the homepage? |
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>> I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. |
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>> Google doesn’t have to know everything. |
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>> The same goes for googlesyndication. |
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> |
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> It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site |
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> owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less |
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> Linux user in their stats. ("But everyone uses Windows, look at the |
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> stats! Let's use ActiveX!") |
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* I will add that of course they can read their server logs, but you'd |
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be surprised how many people rely solely on GA and don't even know how |
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to read their server logs. Or on high-traffic sites the logs can be |
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many gigabytes per day and they simply can't download them and store |
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them. |
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