[tinus_hn]

You don't need to block Google Analytics to make it more private. You just need to make the user appear to a new user to every site.

So Google may lose data because then they can't track you all over the web, but the websites don't because they still see you as one user.

[tyingq]

Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but I assume Google does all sorts of fingerprinting (documented and not) via GA. Why else would it be free if it didn't provide a big upside for Google?

[tinus_hn]

Why do they need fingerprinting? They can just give you an identifier and combine it with your login on the Google sites to connect it to your identity.

[jaegerpicker]

Only a limited subset is free. More advanced types of tracking requires the pro subscription.

[mbel]

Isn't it like this that all data is gathered anyway, but site owner can access the more advanced tracers with paid subscriptions?

I don't intent to provoke FUD, I seriously don't know. This would sound like rational choice for Google since they need this data to run their business.