[LINK] disabling Google Analytics

[Andy Farkas]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> Google runs a global tracking system that tracks what websites you go
> to.  It's evidently an opt-out system, except you can't opt out, well
> not directly and not easily.  Google says it's too complicated.

I block *.google-analytics.com on my squid proxy. It works pretty good
except that about 2 months ago I noticed I could not login to gmail (the
username and password boxes would not show up no matter how many times
I refreshed).

> I use noscript myself.  I think, although I haven't tested it, that
> with noscript your browser doesn't download the script.

Try going to gmail.com and check if the username/password boxes show up.

-andyf