[Fredej]

One part he mentions is that avoiding tracking cookies means avoiding the "I consent to tracking cookies" popup.

> However, GA has grown exceedingly complicated, installs cookies (thus requiring the utterly annoying cookie warning in the EU)

[dindresto]

Fingerprinting for this purpose requires user consent in the same way a tracking cookie would. Admittedly, fingerprinting is harder to prove from the user side.

[Semaphor]

AT least in this case, there’s a blog post pointing out how it violates GDPR ;)