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Comment by malandrew | Hacker News Reader

Can't we simply block all requests to Google Analytics so that the GA javascript is never loaded?

Sure, just black hole www.google-analytics.com and ssl.google-analytics.com in your hosts file.

I've done this for a year or so now.. it works fine.

Add this line to your hosts file:

  0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com

if you have iptables you can try amici: http://github.com/upwhere/amici