Remove Google Analytics And Google Tag Manager.

Scupake commented 4 years ago

Description

I would like to remove Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (I assume you also use Google Tag Manager for analytics because your website does not contain any ads) due to privacy concerns, but if you have to keep tabs on users' activities I suggest using an alternative, some reputable alternatives are listed here.

Benefits

Google is an advertising company. This means they make money by watching what users do on the web, to create a more relevant advertising profile for a specific user.

FOSS has a chance to change this. Instead of helping Google use surveillance tactics on unsuspecting users that rely on FOSS products, we can use safer alternatives.

As products such as Matomo and Plausible are open-source, anyone can see how their analytics systems work. Instead of trusting devious and unethical companies with browsing data, we should be investing in FOSS, to provide a privacy-conscious environment for FOSS advocates.

As issue #86 clearly states, Nord takes privacy seriously. I love that they have taken this into consideration, but there is still an inherent problem when this 'privacy' relies on closed-source systems that nobody can analyze. As Google have proven they cannot be trusted with personal data, I think relying on them for privacy is naive.