Comment by dijit
2 months ago
I often wonder what value it actually is.
Sure, you might understand your demographics better.. if you presume that the analytics are faultless at telling you this- which they're really not.
If you care about how your site is used, you don't need to set any cookies.
For my company, being able to view the user journey throughout the site in the analytics is pretty valuable.
We don't care who the specific users are - but the tracking gives us an idea of how many people use the site? do they have a good experience? are they giving us money? do we have a bug somewhere we're missing? etc.
All that is valuable as a business.
Back in the day we used to track user activity via a "hit id" (basically a random string) that was generated on the backend that added a "post" request to every page.
Idk if that was a good idea or not.
We depended on cookies for your cart and stuff.
The regulations are about tracking, and a chain of form fields and a cookie need to follow basically the same rules.