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Comment by timdoug | Hacker News Reader

Or for the mildly more paranoid, block it entirely; just add the following to /etc/hosts:

  127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
  127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com

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If you're really paranoid you could be worried about the domain changing anytime.

Not likely since the j/s is hard-coded into website templates. Even if they did change the domain, very few websites would have the new domain for awhile.

Doesn't that slow down and/or break a bunch of sites?

not if you have a server on 127.0.0.1:{80,443}

You should get an immediate Connection Refused if there's no one listening on 80/443.

That still may break sites if the variables that ga.js defines are used outside of a try/catch.

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