We’ve just launched a new browser extension called “SlopGuard” which does AI image generation detection locally inside your browser! You can get it from the Chrome Web Store here. Note: before you click the “Add to Chrome” button, you should know that this is a very large extension (400M), so it will take a few […]
We’ve recently launched the first version of a Chrome browser extension “GA Opt-Out (Per Site)“, so I thought I’d write up a quick post explaining how it works and why we built it. What it does GA Opt-Out Per Site (which I’m going to now call “GOOPS” for the rest of this post, sorry…) blocks […]
Plenty of people on LinkedIn know me as that guy that posts about the popularity of different analytics tools. Like a discount Gartner Research with occasional ska memes. I’ve shared a lot of tables like the following, which compares usage data from Feb 2026 to 2025. This table shows the number of installs that website […]
It feels like something has changed in the last few months when it comes to building software. While AI code generation has been around for a while now (GitHub Copilot launched in June 2022), the tooling seems to have recently reached the point where it can build credible, releasable software. To get beyond vibes and […]
2nd edition of “Google Analytics Alternatives” now released, February 2026! Digital versions available starting at < $10 (depending on your location) from Gumroad. Print version available for $30 at Amazon. What’s the best alternative to Google Analytics? There are literally hundreds of potential alternatives to Google Analytics, but at the same time there is no […]
I’m very excited to announce the release of the 2nd edition of Google Analytics Alternatives! The new edition is now available for sale worldwide: $25 for the PDF and ePub edition via Gumroad $25 for the Kindle edition via Amazon $30 for the print edition via Amazon Since the Gumroad edition pays a much higher […]
My last story about ChatGPT scraping Google and leaking prompts received a lot of attention, and I was especially pleased to see that OpenAI said that they’ve fixed the issue. So what was “the issue”, and what did they fix? My research with Slobodan Manić on the topic showed two things: Some raw ChatGPT prompts […]
UPDATE: Thanks to Ars Technica’s reporting on this story, OpenAI has claimed to have fixed the leakage but that this only affected a “small number” of prompts. Based upon what OpenAI has said and the speed of the response I think it’s most likely that the glitch was related to the layer of ChatGPT that […]
by Jason Packer with help from Juliana Jackson “.. the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – Scott Fitzgerald, 1936 We’re at a dangerous inflection point in AI, where soon there may be so […]
Google has long offered a “Google Analytics Certification” quiz. For GA4, it’s 50 questions (from a pool of 150) that cover a broad range of topics within GA. The quiz is timed, and in order to be certified, you have to score an 80% or better. Since the quiz is open book and most of […]
