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The privacy risks of using Google Analytics

In Commentary on 20 November 2011 tagged with 2 comments

Did you know that there’s a reverse lookup for Google Analytics IDs? I didn’t. Andy Baio has the details.


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Of course, given this information, I suppose you could “impersonate” someone by using their GA id, assuming you don’t actually care about collecting the GA statistics …

Posted by Patrick Mueller on 21 November 2011 @ 11am

That is evil and brilliant.

Posted by Rafe on 21 November 2011 @ 12pm

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