{"id":6838,"date":"2020-10-04T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:45:14","slug":"goodbye-google-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/goodbye-google-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Google and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know I haven&#8217;t written a lot lately but I have done a bit of a spring clean with the various plugins on this WordPress installation. Part of that clean up was to remove Google Analytics and Facebook integration from the site (I still have a plugin that adds shortcuts to this blog&#8217;s presence on other sites though but they otherwise benign).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Google or Facebook these days &#8211; you as a user get little to no benefit from letting these sites know you visit this blog and I certainly get no tangible benefit either. Furthermore, savvy users will run various blockers that will stop connection to such services anyway, so I figured I would just save everyone the trouble and turn them off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Google and Facebook might track your browsing across the internet, I&#8217;ve decided to remove all integrations with these services from my website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-legal","category-privacy","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}