The author set up Google Analytics on their website in 2010 to track page views, finding the data interesting and sometimes useful. However, Google collects more information than just page views, and the author finds the tracking too invasive. After discovering some information, the author modified their Google Analytics code to disable certain tracking features, aiming to avoid needing a cookie banner and still track page views. The modified code seemed to work initially, but after a couple of weeks, page views reported by Google Analytics dropped drastically. The author used Google Tag Assistant, which indicated that page view events were being sent correctly, but the page views were not showing up in Google Analytics data. The author is unsure how to proceed, not wanting to invest too much time or money into resolving the issue. They considered alternative tracking options, but found them too expensive, and open-source solutions too effort-intensive. The author may have to live without analytics, prioritizing writing and editing over tracking website data.