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Edited by Arbiter 739:
6/14/2013 7:56:03 PM
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Why is Bungie sending our data to Google!?
So I was browsing Bungie on Firefox and something in the corner caught my eye. After checking again it confirmed my fear: Whenever I load a page on Bungie.net something is going to Google. I took two well-timed screenshots and cropped them together in MSPaint.
This never used to happen!
EDIT: Thank you for the explanation, Achronos and Recon Number 54.
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1 ReplyThe Google request is for Google Analytics. It gathers things like how long you're visiting the site, what pages you go to, browser usage, etc. This information is available to us, but we didn't want to have to write our own analytics tools when Google's are excellent. This call isn't new, either, we've been using it for some time.
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Oh Noez!!!!! Erase your search history!!!
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Edited by Recon Number 54: 6/14/2013 3:33:13 PMIt's not the NSA watching your phone conversations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics It's a data analysis tool from Google that allows web-site managers to see how visitors use their site. Generate usage and trending stats such as "time spent per page", how many unique users per hour, how many return visitors, how many new visitors, graph and chart all that stuff for me please. Thanks Google. Nice tool. So, to answer your question. It's more accurate to say that "Google is sending our data (of how we use this site) back to Bungie"
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Edited by Viltre: 6/14/2013 5:30:38 PMYeah, there are other cross-site requests such as Facebook, Twitter, and Addthis as well. There are some ways to deal with it though. The addons NoScript and RequestPolicy allow for the javascript and cross-site requests to be blocked. Another way is [url=https://www.bungie.net/en-us/Forum/Post?id=60403385&path=1]do what dazarobbo suggested by blocking them through AdBlock Plus.[/url] This would probably be the better option since NoScript and RequestPolicy break a lot of sites and they aren't really easy to use. On a similar note, [url=http://halo.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?postID=68840471]I remember this topic that daz made a while back.[/url] Seeing as how there are facebook buttons on the top of every thread now, wouldn't Facebook be able to link those threads you enter to you if you are signed in. Personally I find that frightening and would love a way to opt-out of the social media buttons like I suggested on my alt in the above linked thread.
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It was on Bungie.old as well, fyi.
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I use Firefox and that has been happening for about a month and a half or so. I have no idea.
