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I agree. I understand that people have issues with being retargeted by ad platforms and hate seeing the same ad follow them around, but I don't really seem any downside to users being tracked by 3rd party platforms like Google Analytics. Platforms like GA, don't track first party information and anonymize who you are with a randomly generated ID. This is the only thing that makes your visit unique from the rest. I don't see any harm in providing that information. How do you expect businesses to get insights into what features users like or dislike in their product? I can easily see users of a tool like this complain about a change in one of their favorite products, but by preventing them from any insights how does the business figure that out?

I would say it is safe to say that having a mobile optimized site is something that you might want to be added to your list since it is now included into their ranking algorithm and as mobile devices become more common than desktops, this will only become more important.