[SethMurphy]

It is privacy oriented from the perspective of the company, not the individual. I think there is some value in that. Although it makes it no more likely to be secure or private for the individual end user visiting the site though.

[MyOutfitIsVague]

Privacy oriented from the perspective of the company is at least more privacy oriented from the perspective of the user. A company harvesting my data for analytics is more private than two companies harvesting my data for analytics.

If I'm going to a site, I'm willingly sharing some of my personal data with that site. I'm not implicitly consenting to third parties harvesting my data.

[TZubiri]

Yeah sure. But in terms of data security, data is safer at Google than hosted by some tinfoil hat wearing schizo in his basement