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> jQuery on their CDN has nothing to do with Google Analytics

most production servers i encounter that serve google's copies of jQuery also serve GA. i know this because i have to manually allow those requests using RequestPolicy. yes, they're technically different products. but that wasn't my point.

> I have no idea what you're referring to here

check out: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...



> most production servers i encounter that serve google's copies of jQuery also serve GA. i know this because i have to manually allow those requests using RequestPolicy. yes, they're technically different products. but that wasn't my point.

so...when you said "in exchange for" you meant that some sites also use Google Analytics?

> check out: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...

That's not a page of "Google's SSL-based tracking" methods. That's an attempt to enumerate ways browsers leak information.




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