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Old August 24th 20, 02:19 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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Default OT What does google analytics do here?

"Corvid" wrote

| Retrieved this webpage eearlier tonight, and again just now,
| https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/
|
| I think it took longer this time and in the middle of retreption**, the
| little notes in the bottom left of the Firefox page said something like
| "transferring to google analytics".
|
| What is the purpose of that? Being too literal is an ongoing problem
| of mine, but my first thought is that google was going to analyse why
| the page was taking too long to load.
|
| Might be for
|
| "There has been no activity for 15 minutes. As a security measure, your
| session will time out in 5 minutes. Click OK to continue."

Google Analytics is spyware beacons and script that
track page visits. Webmasters who don't know what
they're doing -- and don't care about their visitors'
privacy -- add it to their pages in order to get free
stats for their website. What Google gets -- as with the
fonts they give away, the map links, the jquery, and
their ad tracking links such as googletagmanager --
is a chance to monitor nearly every visit to nearly
every webpage online... There's a reason they're the
top advertising company online. They didn't get there
by being nice.


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