

Just going to semi-counter argument so this doesn’t feel like a circle jerk.
Analytics are there to help you refine you user flow paths and even refine verbiage to make the whole experience frictionless. With a GDPR style consent banner and a limited and deliberate analytics package you can better fine tune things. Even changing a single word in A/B testing can show results for you and your users. The goal is to make the entire experience as frictionless as possible. Not evil. Just serving the win-win.
Now to step back for a little perspective to counter my counter. Web properties are very mature these days and we all follow the selected patterns. It’s not like the early days when we were trying this all out and “clunky” was the best description. Unless your site is doing something unconventional on purpose with fundamentals like navigation, its probably not a big deal.
Edit: most companies drop in extensive premium analytics. Then once they know the newly deployed site is good, everyone forgets except for make work reporting to execs.






“Secret”. *sigh
My clickbait fatigue is too high to even read the article.