Comment Just block google-analytics and gstatic (Score 1) 154
That's naive, simplistic and, unfortunately, wrong. Running your own servers isn't enough - Google is collecting much more data than what users intentionally put into their systems, and therein lies the problem. Google is collecting data even if people have no direct interaction with Google or their properties. Are you checking Slashdot? Well, Slashdot reports you to Google, via calls to google-analytics and gstatic. Were you notified of this? Heck, no. Can you opt out? Only by not using Slashdot, or thousands of other sites. Are you using some WIFI somewhere? Chances are they use Google DNS, and Google will record your queries and correlate your patterns of use until they know it's you.
Hint to anybody who doesn't know (10% of Slashdot visitors I bet):You can simply block google-analytics and gstatic via plugins in your browser, or more elaborate, via hostfile editting and a number of other ways. I use Privacy Badger and NoScript. Most website (including slashdot) work perfectly well with google spyware disabled. But some websites do not.
