http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2008/01/05/could-everyone-stop-using-google-analytics-please.html Economic Sociology from the Ground Up Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2008/01/05/could-everyone-stop-using-google-analytics-please.html#comment-24 Peter Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:13:35 +0000 http://rethinkingmarkets.org/2008/01/05/could-everyone-stop-using-google-analytics-please.html#comment-24 Interesting - it appears that Wordpress <a href="http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/can-i-use-google-analytics/" rel="nofollow">automatically</a> adds google analytics to its own wordpress sites, "to monitor the domain in ways that provide us with useful information to benefit the service we offer." I guess another instance of free not really being free? Interesting – it appears that WordPress automatically adds google analytics to its own wordpress sites, “to monitor the domain in ways that provide us with useful information to benefit the service we offer.” I guess another instance of free not really being free?

]]> http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2008/01/05/could-everyone-stop-using-google-analytics-please.html#comment-23 jeremy Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:49:24 +0000 http://rethinkingmarkets.org/2008/01/05/could-everyone-stop-using-google-analytics-please.html#comment-23 I notice it loads on Scatterplot (WP.com), but to my knowledge we have no way of turning it off. If there is a way to use it to get the kind of Google Analytics info that blog-visitor-porn aficionados truly obsess over -- the IPs of individual readers, the number of unique IP readers -- I don't know how to access it. I notice it loads on Scatterplot (WP.com), but to my knowledge we have no way of turning it off. If there is a way to use it to get the kind of Google Analytics info that blog-visitor-porn aficionados truly obsess over — the IPs of individual readers, the number of unique IP readers — I don’t know how to access it.

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