Google Creating Browser Plug-in to Block Analytics

[tangor]

Over the past year, we have been exploring ways to offer users more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics. We concluded that the best approach would be to develop a global browser based plug-in to allow users to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.

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Another commentary from The Register:
[theregister.co.uk...]

[tedster]

This news is something that Google Search Forum readers may be interested in - so thanks for the references, tangor. We also have a thread about this announcement in our Analytics Forum, so to avoid having parallel threads we'll use that spot for further discussion - here's the link:

User opt-out option for Google Analytics on the way [webmasterworld.com]