title: Removing Site Tracking
url: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/removing-tracking
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<p>I’ve just pushed a commit to my site that will remove Google Analytics tracking from this site for good.</p>
<p>It was just 4 or 5 lines of code, but it represented me being compilict in the tracking of you, the beautiful person reading this, as you moved across the web.</p>
<p>Google Analytics is in the same breed of tracking software as Facebook, and I’m sure you all know how vehmently against Facebook I am (“Facebook are fucks” is my official statement). So why would I allow one of those things on my site, but not the other, when they enable exactly the same level of awfulness?</p>
<p>In fact, in an act of rank hypocricy, I myself disable all loading of Google Analytics whenever I visit a web page. Why should it be okay for me to force this spying script on each visitor, but perfectly okay for me to disable the same script when I make my merry way across the web?</p>
<p>In truth, Google Analytics has always been a bit of a childish self-validation crutch. “Look how many visits I’m getting ma!” It doesn’t really serve a <em>purpose</em> for me. I design my site for everybody, so I don’t need to track where people are coming from. I design my site for every device, so I don’t need to track OS and Browser. I have zero interest in the awfully revealing demographic data that GA exposes. I really have no need to see real-time data on visitors. It’s all really for nothing.</p>
<p>So taking all those things into account it is time to say goodbye to Google Analytics. It was good while it lasted. </p>
