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jklinger410

> I ended up building a simple script to track user behavior and analyzed 200+ small e-commerce sites.

Why not use Microsoft Clarity?

> The bots are getting creepily good at mimicking engagement.

You would think Google Analytics would help a lot with this, but they seem to not care.

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That's like saying why not just live on the dole?

Answer: pride, curiosity, inspiration, creativity, a sense of ownership, integrity, control, vision

I can't believe these concepts are so foreign to so many.

Okay, well I'm asking the author why they developed their own analytics tool rather than using an industry standard hoping there's some reason beyond motivational phrases.

Like, asking if there's a real technical reason.

But, go off I guess.

> You would think Google Analytics would help a lot with this, but they seem to not care.

Not just not care, but don't they have incentive to report higher traffic?

At this point Google is just committing fraud to justify high stock prices.

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