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by rajasimon 1258 days ago
why you need to block analytics? As a bloggers I just need to know how many views I get daily. And with this kind of tool I don't get that anymore.

And I see that you use Google Analytics for your own website and what do you think about that?

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Privacy.

You're not getting those metrics from other products like Ghostery, uBlock.

Also, browsers built for privacy are not showing up as metrics either.

I think generally analytics are incredibly helpful, but they've been abused. There should not be a way that individual users show be able to be identified by their browser analytics.

While working on this project that amount of data that I've seen collected on individuals is terrifying.

Perhaps you could use some other metric for success? Like adding the ability to "like" an article, or share? I know some individuals add the ability to click a button to "Continue Article" or something to track engagement.