A lot of sites break if Google Analytics is blocked (on purpose).

Animats · on May 4, 2015

It's not that bad. I have it blocked, and it only affects a few sites. For those sites, there are alternatives.

wtallis · on May 5, 2015

And for years NoScript has provided a surrogate script that makes those sites think GA isn't being blocked.

plausibility · on May 5, 2015

Is that so? I've had GA blocked with HTTP Switchboard since I installed it, and never come across a site which required me allowing it. Some sites need me to turn off Chameleon so that they recognise Flash or something, but GA's never been problematic.

userbinator · on May 5, 2015

Really?

I've had the GA domains redirected to 0.0.0.0 via HOSTS file for... ever since GA started to exist, and I haven't seen any specific messages to that effect. It'd make sense that some would use JS to detect this, but I have that disabled by default.

Maybe it's because I see a lot of other "broken" sites in my daily browsing due to that, and I don't really need to find out why - if a site isn't giving the info I need, I go back to the search results and to the next one.

grrowl · on May 5, 2015

It may only break those using advanced features, like A-B variations, but not for regular tracking.