> So your main argument is privacy, not letting Google collect users' data, but then consider that most of your users are probably using Chrome, everything they type in the URL box is sent to Google (for autocompletion) anyway.
I can't control information they willingly give away, but I don't have to give them additional data on the people who chose not to send everything to google.
> Is looking at some comics website even a privacy problem? Let's say google finds out your user X looks at your website. What possible damage can they do? Sell it to the advertisers so they can target X with some comics ad?
For me it's because it ruins the search results. Just because I looked at a comic doesn't mean I want them ranked higher in search results. I've found the less google knows about me the better the search works.
> Then you have to give up other cool things like Google Analytics.
Personally I'm about to give up on it anyway. Maybe if your a big site it's useful. I just want a list of page hits and the referrer url if possible. Analytics completely fails at this.
> For me it's because it ruins the search results. Just because I looked at a comic doesn't mean I want them ranked higher in search results. I've found the less google knows about me the better the search works.
Isn't that what clicking the Globe icon next to the Cog icon does?
I can't control information they willingly give away, but I don't have to give them additional data on the people who chose not to send everything to google.
> Is looking at some comics website even a privacy problem? Let's say google finds out your user X looks at your website. What possible damage can they do? Sell it to the advertisers so they can target X with some comics ad?
For me it's because it ruins the search results. Just because I looked at a comic doesn't mean I want them ranked higher in search results. I've found the less google knows about me the better the search works.
> Then you have to give up other cool things like Google Analytics.
Personally I'm about to give up on it anyway. Maybe if your a big site it's useful. I just want a list of page hits and the referrer url if possible. Analytics completely fails at this.