Prevent Data Collection with the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Extension

I am confused by the message at: <chrome://extensions/ >" "Safety Check" "Review 2 extensions that may be unsafe" "Chrome recommends that you remove them" "IBA Opt-out (by Google)" "This extension hasn't published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data" I was able to Find, Read, and Understand the Privacy Policy about the "Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google)" at: "policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US." What is the mis-information (or dis-information), Google? Should we be deleting it?

I agree with ALL of the many posts (confused by turninging on/off, motive, financial gain, etc) .... now please state "Why does Google have to use an add-in in order to opt-out of sharing, selling, and providing information to a 3rd party"? At the top of page for the Add-On Opt-Out (by Google) it distinctly says "Google doesn't verify reviews", therefore if Google is not verifying their own reviews, then how does it know to provide better service? Rule of thumb has been, "when you know better, only then can you do better"! This is what makes me suspicious of their intention.

Installing an add-in to opt out of sharing my personal information doesn't feel safe. It feels like the add-in gathers my info then lets sites know they can't have it. So what does the add-in do with what it gathers ...

It works but it's confusing to turn on and off. You don't know when it's working or not

In spite of having installed “Google Opt-out Add-on (by Google)” I just got an Add send by “ www.google-analytics.com/collect??v=..... from Ticketcorner.ch (and I have not bought anything from Ticketcorner=>third-party information collection). This makes me doubt if Google intentions (greenwashing) and live up their moral obligation on Data-collection of private information (European GDPR-law). This is a shortsighted strategy from a “monopoly”: You collect reputation/image in drops but loose it in buckets.

Ideal for web developers who don't want to include their footprint on their projects causing inaccurate data. For all the nay-sayers, this app is not actually for you so quit your whining and just go incognito mode.

Under EU GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, Cookie options are defined under very strict terms and huge fines for non-compliance (100s of Thousands of £/Euros). Some sites use the "Missing NO" explained in long winded policy documents in the hope that the consumer is too uninterested or too lazy to make the effort to follow up and just accept. I also think the level of trust with the "third party" players and most particularly Google in any form is a long distance to stretch credulity, And I believe that companies that do this are not fully trustworthy in their ethical position.

I am confused. If I expect the cookie to allow me to opt-out of Chrome peeking in on what Iam doing why do I have to "add-on" as an extension. It just sounds really sneaky. Please, clarify the necessity to add-on the extension required to "opt-out".

Google is optimal for an average user.

But do you really *trust* Google to self-manage this, and truly opt you out of the thing they make their money from? Without an open source check, and requiring your acceptance from a TOS and EULA to install this plugin (which re-grants them consent again) I am deeply suspicious of Google's integrity due to the profit-motive conflict of interest here. They'll word-weasel their way around this with lawyers.

these ads, and the constant bombardment virtually make my laptop unusable. I will have to take my machine to a technician to get them to stop appearing. How very dare they to introduce any of these in the first place. it is so hard to get rid of them that there should be an investigation as to how they are operating, and a mechanism should be put in place to protect us users from falling fowl of this invasion of our privacy, and interference with our businesses, and leisure time. By far and away the worst hacking of my internet experience. I rate a no star experience, but I have to tick one in order to 'post' this review.

Can't add collaborators to a google form when this add-on enabled, the popup immediately disappear, this needs to be fixed.

Its woking in ga4

When I remember this extension it's always grey, like it's not working. It would be best to browse in incognito where tracking is blocked.

Finally something that works!! Checked on Chrome and Brave!!

So I installed this extension again. But when I look at extension bar (lack of better wording (in the right corner were the extension appears)) I notice that this extension is grey as if its not "on". When I click manage extension, the slide is blue and says that the extension is active. How do I interpreting that? When any other extensions if turned off, show grey in the list and actually says its off.

useles extension it do nothing!! it dosen't block analytics

If you're looking for ways to protect your web activity, this shouldn't be your weapon of choce even for blocking Google Analytics. To be clear, there are way more comprehensive blocking methods even for Chrome out there which should be a hint of what this extension is actually designed for: a simple way to ONLY blocking Google Analytics, nothing more or less than that. The practical effect will be that your browser will not send all of the usual data to the Analytics servers and your visit will therefore not contribute to the aggregated data collection of the specific site. These type of tools can for example be used as a work-around to screen out "internal" traffic from Analytics (for example employees visiting their own company's external website) when the usual IP-blocking functions in Analytics is hard to implement for one reason or another. As far as I can tell, it does what it's supposed to do.

This block google tracking. Works fine in 2023 with Universal Analytics, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Ads tracking.