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Prevent Google Analytics data from being blocked by ad blockers (getfullanalytics.com)
2 points by alfonmga 1378 days ago
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Hi there! I'm Alfon, the human being behind this service.

getfullanalytics.com is in a pre-beta state, and we plan to release the beta for everybody in the next few days. I just wanted to share it with you all here on HN ;-)

How does this work for GDPR & CCPA like rule regimes?
Google Analytics, by default, is not CCPA compliant.

You can take steps for stricter compliance with CCPA, such as: implementing IP anonymization, disabling data sharing, displaying a cookie consent banner on your site, reviewing PII collected and honoring user data access/deletion requests..etc.

Anyways, it is too early for this service to dig into this legal stuff. I prefer to focus on building at this moment.

What prevents your service from making it into the ad blockers?

Why not do the following https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...

The only way to really achieve this is running analytics through the same domain the users are visiting, best as a path. I suspect this is where the market will go if ad blockers become to pervasive

> Why not do the following https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...

I could say that we do that at a high level, but as SaaS for our clients. You can't expect the average person to set up and manage 3 servers (HA) on GCP to get everything running.

> The only way to really achieve this is running analytics through the same domain the users are visiting, best as a path. I suspect this is where the market will go if ad blockers become to pervasive

That's right.

You didn't answer the first question...
How can I bypass/disable this on sites that try to force it on me?
There are ways. Ie. Blacklist sites, View the site archives / caches, view sites via different protocols, ...
You can't. If you could bypass/disable it, the core value of this service would be worthless.