Comment by HenryBemis
5 years ago
> to prevent websites from breaking
Nope, nothing will break. I am blocking GA in the following ways: NoScript, PrivacyBadger, Windows HOSTS file. I see the thing being called, and nothing gets through, and websites work properly.
Edit: the bugzilla article mentions both GA and googletagmanager.com, which (both) I have been successfully blocking in the above ways for many years. I never had any website not working because of those two pieces.
I mean the Bugzilla literally has an example of a website that breaks.
/rant
Someone built the unsubscribe mechanism in a way so that they FORCE the user to be tracked by GA. That someone is... Xfinity? By Comcast? Hahahaha!!
One.Website. So we should yield to those **(profanity)? That one website does not deserve our respect.
Comcast: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/comcast-fined-9-1m-consumer-pr...
Edit: "we are scum. We want to ** your privacy any way we can. We just got hit with a multi-million fine, so we will continue. You want to unsubscribe? Sure, be tracked a bit more while at it." /end-rant
What are you saying? Firefox should stop doing this because no sites have broke for you when blocking the script?
Only anecdotal, and no longer happening: The top menu on https://www.easyjet.com/en/ used to break if you disabled Google Analytics, the submenu just wouldn't appear.
counter-anecdote: I encountered multiple sites that break because of blocked scripts. and this is with ublock origin, which has shims for common analytics scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url...