Title: Plugin adds Google Analytics code to your site
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Plugin adds Google Analytics code to your site

 *  [Roger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogermedia/)
 * (@rogermedia)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-adds-google-analytics-code-to-your-site/)
 * Was working on my site and noticed another GA code popping up – UA-12964573-5.
   This is alarming as it means my sites analytics are being sent to a third party
   without my permission. Upon further research it appears that this code is being
   placed by the Shareaholic plugin without clearly identifying that this is what
   is happening.
 * I have now removed this plugin from all of my client websites and will not be
   using anything related to this plugin creator again. This constitutes a serious
   breach of privacy by the plugin creator.
 * There are other plugins that track information such as the Yoast SEO plugin but
   they do this in an Opt-In manner and further use a much less invasive approach
   as you can read about here – [http://yoast.com/yoast-tracking/](http://yoast.com/yoast-tracking/)
 * Going whole hog and grabbing all Analytics data from a website is well beyond
   gaining simple insights into what version of wordpress is being used.
 * I see that this was brought up 2 years ago – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sexybookmarks-hidden-googleanalytics-code-in-v329?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sexybookmarks-hidden-googleanalytics-code-in-v329?replies=4)
   and that the response from the creator was that you can simply turn it off.
 * This is something that should be off by default.

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 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-adds-google-analytics-code-to-your-site/#post-7799337)
 * Hi Roger,
 * The Google Analytics integration was included in the plugin by request several
   years ago. The settings are available on the Social Analytics page of the plugin
   interface along with a link to documentation explaining how it works. When setting
   up the plugin, this is an optional feature that can be configured in the same
   manner that you can configure other features available within the plugin over
   their categorized settings pages.
 * Currently, this feature is not included in our [v7 redesign](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200549077-Navigating-the-New-Plugin-Interface)
   that was released on [our other channel](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/)
   this summer. The sexybookmarks plugin channel will be upgraded to v7 in January,
   but you are free to install v7 before then if you’d like to give it a spin.
 * And just a snip from the documentation concerning Social Interactions:
 * “While event tracking can track general content interactions as well, Social 
   Analytics provides a consistent framework for recording social interactions. 
   This in turn provides Google Analytics report users with a consistent set of 
   reports to compare social network interactions across multiple networks.”
 * This feature is harmless and actually helpful. Please, take the time to read 
   the documentation for a better understanding. Also, you would need to include
   your Google Analytics Property ID into the input box on the Social Analytics 
   settings page for it to work when enabled.

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 * Last reply from: [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
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