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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrot=
e:
>> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH:
>>> Grant schrieb:
>>> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds
>>> on the homepage?
>>
>> I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript.
>> Google doesn=92t have to know everything.
>> The same goes for googlesyndication.
>
> It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site
> owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less
> Linux user in their stats. ("But everyone uses Windows, look at the
> stats! Let's use ActiveX!")
* I will add that of course they can read their server logs, but you'd
be surprised how many people rely solely on GA and don't even know how
to read their server logs. Or on high-traffic sites the logs can be
many gigabytes per day and they simply can't download them and store
them.