Comment by currysausage
5 years ago
Maybe a dumb question: Why isn't it enough to simply block the Analytics JS, why is it necessary to substitute it with a "fake no-op" script? Does blocking GA regularly break sites?
5 years ago
Maybe a dumb question: Why isn't it enough to simply block the Analytics JS, why is it necessary to substitute it with a "fake no-op" script? Does blocking GA regularly break sites?
One use case I noticed: Don't render the site until Google Tag Manager is loaded. Because of this, when using an adblocker that blocks GTM, the site will never load.
I guess the reason to block GTM until load it use it show some personalized ads/pricing/buttons.
Yes. Many sites assume that GA is there, and for example clicks on buttons may fail to work if the GA click call fails. It isn't great engineering from the site but Firefox wants its users to still be able to browse the web.