[Revisor]

Could you please post some details about what you mean with them monitoring your site's traffic and performance?

I found the code for the "anonymous survey", but you have to submit it manually.

Edit: I think you might mean the news loaded remotely in the Admin CP upon every login. It's injected in the page as is.

[robomartin]

I haven't touched the codebase in quite some time. My recollection might be a little off. If I remember correctly, when you integrate Google Analytics through the admin panel you are integrating a flavor of Google Analytics that actually passes the data through the vBulletin mothership.

Like I said, I stopped using vB a long time ago. For all I know they've fixed this issue. Please don't take my word for it as current versions might behave differently. If you are a vB user I suggest you ask in their various official and unofficial support forums.