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Originally Posted by Madrox
have you ever used google analytics? why do they need the title? well they do rank your most viewed pages on your site in your dashboard and give you tons of useful information based on your OWN visitors because of those stats...
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C'mon - do you really think that Google maintains a separate database for each individual site, and does not do any cross linking between their other dbs (including other services), or do aggregate data mining?
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Originally Posted by Madrox
you guys are hilarious, if you're so worried about people getting into your privacy online, do 1 simple thing to stop it, UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER. nobody forces you to go online and give out your information to all these places...
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This thread is more about clandestine collection of data which in the long term could have some serious privacy implications as your 'profile' becomes more detailed. Most people who use their services would be unaware of this.
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Originally Posted by Madrox
its been said in this thread already, if you don't like it, DONT USE IT, i bet everyone of you nuts who bash google for collecting info on you, use google daily to look up 135131 different topics...
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I don't deny that they provide a valuable service, I'm just concerned about the long term implications of their data collection as they move into more and more areas of internet services. It's going to be hard NOT to use Google soon. As mentioned previously - how do I opt out of Google Analytics? Stop loading any site which has them inlined? That's not an acceptable solution...