Remove Google Analytics
Created by: leonklingele
.. for obvious reasons. Not that mostly everyone isn't already using a proper adblocker, it should be done for the sake of our ideology, to give a statement.
Here are some examples of what could be done by a 3rd party on your website (if the script is not src'ed via SRI — Subresource Integrity):
- Modify content (e.g. adjust / add donation addresses)
- Censorship
- Tracking. You're feeding the biggest tracking company with even more data and help them to create a fine-grained user profile
- Redirect to other websites
- Execute arbitrary JavaScript to e.g. enable the camera (ask for permissions first), use geolocation, run crypto miners
- .. complete takeover
Also see https://github.com/mymonero/mymonero-app-js/issues/143 which nobody did reply to nor remove the spyware so far.
I guess this is @fluffypony
There are some self-hosted, open source analytic services available. I'm not an expert but a lot of people are using Piwik (now known under the name »Matomo«).
EDIT: Forgot to mention the most obvious reason: Tracking.
EDIT 2: Why does there even have to be any kind of tracking? What do you currently do with the analytics data? How does it help you / the project?