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Originally Posted by KC911 View Post
Don't know if it's still true (IPv6 makes it a bit more difficult to see with my obsolete knowledge...I don't do that crap no mo ), but a few years ago, if you established an IP connection (always LOTS of connections btw), to Pelican, then you were also being connected to Google servers . Nuthin' is free , but in this day and age, you're not gonna avoid being tracked...YMMV.
Yup. Google Analytics is part of the site, but putting something like

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com

in your hosts file (/etc/hosts for Mac, Linux, *nix or %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on a windows machine) and you'll never connect to G-A again (on that computer)
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