Google Analytics tracks you across different sites AFAIK. Mozilla supposedly has a special option in GA to not correlate data gathered on their sites with what GA gathers on others.
Even if it didn't, it still tells Google what you're visiting: with so many sites using it, they can get a pretty much complete view of your browsing history, just like Google Fonts.
> Google Analytics tracks you across different sites AFAIK.
See that's the thing, I keep seeing this asserted but when I search for any evidence, I can't find a single article that demonstrates this to be true.
If you own multiple sites you can enable analytics across them, but that's all.
And if Google wants to know what you're visiting to build advertising profiles, they have so many options -- not just Fonts, but DNS, Chrome, ads... it's not like GA by itself is making any substantive difference. But again, just because it could be used for this doesn't mean it is.
So I don't get how this is actually helping. I worry it's a distraction from actual achievements.
Even if it didn't, it still tells Google what you're visiting: with so many sites using it, they can get a pretty much complete view of your browsing history, just like Google Fonts.