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New Study Shows #Google #Tracking Persists Even With #Privacy Tools
While privacy-focused search engines like #DuckDuckGo can reduce exposure, completely escaping Google’s reach remains a significant challenge. Study simulated locations using VPN to ensure accurate regional data collection.
The findings reveal Google’s tracking extends far beyond its own products, embedded deeply within countless websites through tools like #GoogleAnalytics, #AdSense, and #YouTube embeds. hackread.com/new-study-google-

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Notice of Data Breach from Blue Shield:

"On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google’s advertising product, Google Ads, that likely included protected health information. Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns targeted back to you.”

Interesting.

I get traffic reports from both Google and Bing on our website's performance. I also get raw traffic data from Cloudfare.

Google keeps saying my traffic is down each month. Bing right now is reporting HIGHER numbers than Google. Google keeps pushing adsense on us as something we should "increase use of".

I wonder if us opting out of Google's ad trackers, and adsense, in February this year with our site redesign is the cause. ;) (we still have the most basic analytics stuff, via Yoast SEO, running).

Meanwhile, Cloudfare reports real numbers. We had 440K uniques in July. Google says we had 135K. (6 mo ago they said we had around 210K). Bing 144K. Our site logs? (after bots, etc weeded out): 442K.

What's really interesting is that Bing reports we have higher traffic than Google does. This is the first month that's happened.

DON'T TRUST GOOGLE's ANALYTICS.

#Google #Searchconsole seems to have quietly changed the #Link menu to "#Top" links only!

Top links ≠ Shady links (e.g. No. of links from a #domain seem to qualify top links)

"If you have found URLs or sites to disavow in the LINKS REPORT for your site..."
support.google.com/webmasters/

Are they trying to prevent people from finding all the negative links & How to find all these bad links Google wants people to #disavow now?

+1 reason 4 #FCKGOOGLE

PS #GSC#GoogleAnalytics

#Introduction

Hi!

I’m a #DigitalTransformation Manager at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London.

My work involves making sense of how people use our current digital comms channels (website and bulk emails) as well thinking about how to transform those channels to make them better.

A surprising amount of my time is spent in #GoogleAnalytics and in many different #spreadsheets which I use to log data in order to (hopefully) tell interesting stories about what is happening.