Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
The owner of FT, Interstate Brands, wants page views to increase...
I can't guess what's behind the decision to open up OMNI. I am not Randy afterall.
However, I was switching my security suite last week and have been tweaking my system. I have to pay attention to how my system behaves so I can adjust the setup/settings.
Something caught my eyes after the switch. My FT sessions kind of slowed down and I didn't know why and what's causing it. Due to the slowness, I was able to see the site data transmission messages at the bottom of the Firefox browser. It appeared that my FT visits had been sending data to different places. One site stood out: google-analytics.
Ironically, I googled and found
this:
Google wants you to attract more of the traffic you are looking for, and help you turn more visitors into customers.
Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. Make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.
Maybe FT has been on Google Analytics for a long time. I don't know. I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't changed my internet security suite and my system hadn't slowed down. Because I didn't like the slowness, I followed some online advice and installed a (free) web proxy. Being non-techie, I'd never dreamed of needing a web proxy and installing it myself.
Now I know my system is back to the normal speed and my FT privacy is not part of google's tasks.
