I’ve had Google Analytics running on SteveGrunwell.com to some degree since its earliest iterations over ten years ago. Over time, I’ve been lowering the amount of data collected because, to be honest, I wasn’t doing anything with it.
As a result, I’m proud to announce that I’ve removed Google Analytics tracking from SteveGrunwell.com effective immediately.
At times, it’s helpful to be able to create a secure, private family blog for sharing updates with close friends and family without posting to more public social media channels.
There are any number of reasons you might do this: sharing updates about a new child, a new city, or — in our family’s case — a new adventure.
This week a few people in the office got really excited about the Signals app from HubSpot, which lets you see when your emails have been opened and whether or not links have been clicked in your emails. While it’s extremely useful for marketers, project managers, and others who have a vested interest in knowing you’ve read their emails, I’d prefer to be able to read the email at my leisure without having the sender essentially standing over my shoulder to see if I’ve read it. For most people it’s not a big concern, but it is incredibly simple to thwart if you’d like a little more privacy in your inbox.
Be excellent to each other.
