Why are you contributing to the surveillance age of the internet?
In some other profession I'd make exceptions, but seriously the amount of money flowing to developers these days, there's no excuse to sell out.
Do you think that companies who send newsletter do it without any traces of analytics? Every link is tracked, every image is tracked. On the web, there are heatmaps of every single mouse movement. Your keystrokes used to be tracked too, until GDPR hit. Anyone who works does analytics can play back the path visitors used to navigate on the site.
It doesn't take any advanced team to do that. You simply drop a .js file from some third-party CND in your site's head and you have all that data. Any mom ? pop shop that has a website has access to that data.
Everyone does it, that's the current state of the industry. To refuse work from anyone who does analytics would mean to leave the web industry.
> but seriously the amount of money flowing to developers these days
At the time, I was paid cad$40k/year. According to glassdoor.ca, the salary for the same position would be cad$59k/year today. Not everyone works from the inside of a bubble.
