Comment by iLoveOncall
3 years ago
Because I want to know where my readers come from, which Google terms they searched, etc.? There's a million reasons to want to know stats like this without earning money...
3 years ago
Because I want to know where my readers come from, which Google terms they searched, etc.? There's a million reasons to want to know stats like this without earning money...
As a user, I don't want to give this info. I'm glad the EU is giving folks an avenue to express this preference.
I provide free tutorials and articles like this. If you don't want to provide this info then I don't want to provide you free content.
That's the problem with GDPR. A lot of people are fine with this arrangement, but the GDPR is basically making it unlawful. GDPR is basically imposing the preferences of other people (e.g. progman32) on us.
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Then it's not really free content is it? Put your content behind a "paywall" where the payment is whatever information you're (illegally) collecting from GA and see how it goes; at least then the "payment" you're expecting from it will be clear and users can make their own decision.
> which Google terms they searched, etc.
GA doesn't tell you which terms they searched. They mostly stopped doing this in 2013.
Google Search Console _does_ tell you the search terms, and without any tracking on your website.