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Realise this is a blit blunt, but what you're saying is:

- I have this site

- I want analytics => they have some value to me

- I'm not willing/able to pay for it with my money

- I am willing to pay for it with my users' privacy.

That's the GA value equation. You get analytics, you pay with your users' privacy to feed the google advertising machine.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but we should be crystal clear on what's happening.



Seems like there's a bit of exaggeration here. "Not willing to pay" != "not willing to pay 10+€/month for 30 distinct semi-random numbers each month". There are plenty of people willing to pay low prices (comparable to a barely warm cup of some really bad coffee) for analytics to help them make decisions.

Imagine, you write one blog post per month. How much would you pay if I told you which of your blog posts this year has been the most popular one, and on which social media it got the most attention? 120€? Unlikely. Then what do you think would be the fair price of this information?


It's not exaggeration but you make a valid point: I might revise the 3rd bullet to read "I'm not willing to pay the minimum price the market offers".

But that's missing the point:

>Then what do you think would be the fair price of this information?

It's not how much you pay, it's who pays. With GA, you're deciding that your users will pay on your behalf.




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