Has there been any feedback from Google regarding their mass mail blunder?
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I received a mail yesterday from a Joseph Middleswart from Google welcoming me to the beta trial for real time analytics.
But my enjoyment at finally being able to see what's happening with real time data on my site was tempered by the 100+ spam mails I received immediatly after from some of the 200 odd people he'd included in the bulk mailing.
Coming less than a week after Google tells us it's withholding keyword data from GA in order to protect the privacy of logged in users, I'm absolutely dumfounded at their incompetence.
How can they show such a flagrant disregard for my privacy in introducing a new service while dressing up a restriction on another service as a security / privacy matter?
Did anyone else fall victim to this incompetence?
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I'v had real time for a couple of weeks now, its fun to follow instant and see how the user navigates througt your site but more then that??... I cant see it.
I haven't seen any drops in google organic yet and I still get data for all my keywords, I wonder how this will turn out.
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