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Since user data collection is ON by default in Google Tag, here's a short video showing how you can disable it. This is not a recommendation for one thing or another, but a call for due diligence to see if this is a risk your organization is willing to...

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Antepante 🇸🇪🇬🇷2 years ago

For some clients that I have worked with this has been critical in order for them to run GA4. Great of you to share this so that others know that it's possible to do.

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Simo Ahava2 years ago

Yeah the auto-scrape is really the biggest problem, because you can (and should) control manual collection of user data in the client-side tracking scripts (or in SGTM if you’re running server-side tagging).

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Data David2 years ago

Great tip!

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Keith Lavender2 years ago

This is not available for all industries. “The user-provided data collection feature is not available for properties in your industry category.”

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