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Hey Apple,
Saying you block trackers but not blocking Google Analytics is like saying you practice safe sex when you cut off the heads of your condoms.
Sincerely,
A guy who makes an app that actually blocks trackers
Google Analytics is the most prevalent tracker in the world. During our last crawl, we found it on 64.2% of web sites:
https://better.fyi/trackers/google-analytics.com/
Developers: every time you add Google Analytics to a site, you are helping build the global panopticon. Stop it!
@aral Stop it indeed, use https://matomo.org/ instead.
Google analytics doesn't use third party cookies anymore, right?
So what difference with matomo?
@tuxicoman @aral With Google Analytics you share a lot of information with one of the biggest surveillance capitalists in the world. Matomo is free opensource software, your data is your data, not shared with anyone nor used for any other purpose then providing statistics to the website owner.
You can even host Matomo yourself to be absolutely sure your data isn't going anywhere.
@aral nice resource Aral! trying to decrease that number one site at a time with https://plausible.io/
@markosaric @aral Are you aware of any way to integrate Plausible with a site hosted at Adobe Portfolio? Would love that, but no code injection there makes it look like an impossible task.
@markosaric Yeah, that's what I figured... Sad Face Emoji. @aral
@markosaric Looks great, Marko :)
@aral thank you Aral!
@aral Thanks to your toots I finally did it and removed GA from my site. Sadly the main photo site is hosted at Adobe Portfolio, so I can't use any other platform. Gone are my stats... 
@aral Pfffffffff... Non La Il Sont Pas Serieux, better.fuck La Il Utilise Que Apple Ou Quoi ?!??
@aral I was going to advertise for #matomoanalytics but then I realized they became quite pricey since their humble opensource beginnings 
any self hosted analytics software to reccomend ?
@aral Apple doesn’t claim to block google analytics. That is something various news outlets misunderstood and widely misrepresented. what it does is cross site isolation.
@aral what apple claimed to have is “tracking prevention”, and a screen shot showed google analytics was included in that. it will allow ga to load and run, but, the claim is, yiu’ll look unique from site to site.