*What is Google Analytics & How to stop it? by Someone 2010/07/16 12:33
What is Google Analytics & How to stop it?
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites(as ranked by Alexa Internet).
What is Google Analytics & How to stop it?
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites(as ranked by Alexa Internet).
Someone 2010/07/16 12:34
Google Analytics, due to its ubiquity, raises many privacy concerns. Whenever someone visits a website that uses Google Analytics, Google tracks that visit via the user's IP address. Because so many websites use Google Analytics, Google is able to track visitors across websites, theoretically giving Google a real-time view of the traffic on much of the web.
Google has also released a browser plugin that turns off data about a page visit being sent to Google. So if you want to stop websites[sites which use Google Analytics] from tracking your visits... Download following Ad-ons.
Google Analytics, due to its ubiquity, raises many privacy concerns. Whenever someone visits a website that uses Google Analytics, Google tracks that visit via the user's IP address. Because so many websites use Google Analytics, Google is able to track visitors across websites, theoretically giving Google a real-time view of the traffic on much of the web.
Google has also released a browser plugin that turns off data about a page visit being sent to Google. So if you want to stop websites[sites which use Google Analytics] from tracking your visits... Download following Ad-ons.
Someone 2010/07/16 12:35
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA):
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA):
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
DonTundex 2010/07/16 13:07
Quote: Quantum_Of_Solace: Very good and important info bro. Good topic. 
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