&gt; block hosted analytics solutions like Google Analytics<p>That&#x27;s the goal. The pattern-of-life[1] analysis that GA enables is an incredible long-term risk.<p>Allowing one entity to log almost all of your internet activities into one aggregated database creates a massive amount of  potential-social-power. Even if Google isn&#x27;t currently converting that potential-power into an abusive form, the very existence of that data in one location creates a huge temptation for thieves and governments with national security letters.<p>&gt; roll their own analytics<p>Server logs only give you a view of the traffic to one website. There is a huge difference between one business knowing you use their service and a 3rd party carefully logging your entire daily schedule.<p>[1] I highly recommend reading <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.rs&#x2F;en&#x2F;metadata&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.rs&#x2F;en&#x2F;metadata&#x2F;</a> which unfortunately didn&#x27;t get much attention when it was recently posted to HN. I suspect most people are still thinking way too small when judging what is possible from &quot;just metadata&quot;.