"this will limit your solution from many deployments."
I think tech companies (particulalry Google) have conditioned us to expect analytics [1] to be an essential component of all apps and web services. Developers have happily accepted this, rather than questioned it (unless they happen to be the ones being tracked). But actually, analytics may not need to be as detailed (or as intrusive) as many think it needs to be.
Here is a blog post from Whimsical (an online flow chart tool) who decided to remove Google Analytics:
> "We realized that all our tracking stuff had barely marginal value. We were just accumulating data because it might be useful someday. And because everybody else was doing it. Yet 100% of our product decisions over the past year were based on strategy, qualitative feedback and our own needs." (My emphasis)
[1] Words like 'Analytics', 'Telemetry', 'Web Beacon' etc are examples of the dishonesty of the tech industry in using words to hide their real purpose and soften their impact. All of these words are about tracking online behaviour, but no-one would dare use the clearer, more honest word – tracking – in their app or web copy.
Apples and oranges. You have taken the example of a SaaS tool who might not need that level of information. But, a newspaper or a magazine absolutely needs deep information in order to sell advertising and sponsorship on their site.
I think tech companies (particulalry Google) have conditioned us to expect analytics [1] to be an essential component of all apps and web services. Developers have happily accepted this, rather than questioned it (unless they happen to be the ones being tracked). But actually, analytics may not need to be as detailed (or as intrusive) as many think it needs to be.
Here is a blog post from Whimsical (an online flow chart tool) who decided to remove Google Analytics:
> "We realized that all our tracking stuff had barely marginal value. We were just accumulating data because it might be useful someday. And because everybody else was doing it. Yet 100% of our product decisions over the past year were based on strategy, qualitative feedback and our own needs." (My emphasis)
From: https://whimsical.com/blog/choosing-privacy
[1] Words like 'Analytics', 'Telemetry', 'Web Beacon' etc are examples of the dishonesty of the tech industry in using words to hide their real purpose and soften their impact. All of these words are about tracking online behaviour, but no-one would dare use the clearer, more honest word – tracking – in their app or web copy.