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Does hosting client-side tracking on your own domain circumvent all the problems? How come that hasn't become the standard and killed 3rd-party trackers? If it's a question of having to manage an analytics platform, can't that still be deferred to a 3rd-party but through your own subdomain?

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My interpretation of how Google Analytics does this is that pulling in a 3rd party dep lets them keep a lot of control over versioning and similar things. I assume they do this so out-of-date or vulnerable code (or extra tracking, sure) can be cleanly and quickly applied through the network and not rely on the clients to properly update "ga.js" a few times a day.

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