How much data do you think Google has about you and your browsing habits? Crazy amounts. Scary amounts. Volumes of data that make our veins run cold and keep us awake at night. But, hey, they kinda own the web, right? So what can you do?
Forty One of the most popular 100 sites on the web use Google to track their visitors. As it turns out, it's pretty simple to opt-out of Google Analytics data collection. Blog Boing shows us how, "For the more privacy cautious between us the solution for preventing any site's Google Analytics to record any information on us is quite simple. Just add to your hosts file the following lines:"
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 *.google-analytics.com
This little "hack" keeps your computer from contacting Google's Analytics data collection servers, thus keeping your data out of Google's incredibly wealthy hands.
Thanks BlogBoing!
Google Analytics is out of beta, in what may be record time for a Google product. The final version builds on some of the goodies first introduced last month, and includes changes suggested by folks like Search Engine Watch's Danny Sullivan and Marketing Pilgrim's Andy Beal.
If you're a blogger using WordPress, and you're looking for a good way to view both your web visitor statistics as well as your syndicated reader statistics, consider using Google Analytics and FeedBurner. Google Analytics, which was once known as Urchin, is a free and full-featured web statistic reporting package. FeedBurner is a best-of-breed syndicated feed monitoring service. 
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