Has anyone completely DeGoogled their forum?

[Svoboda]

Has anyone completely DeGoogled their forum? I'm talking completely getting rid of all interaction whether that been Analytics, Adsense, etc.

If so, what have your outcomes been? Any unforeseen circumstances?

 

[rdn]

Google Analytics

I removed this several years ago for all my sites, as I'm content with Cloudflare stats.
I didn't notice any downside to not having it.

 

[Svoboda]

I removed this several years ago for all my sites, as I'm content with Cloudflare stats.
I didn't notice any downside to not having it.

Thanks for the response. My site used to rank highly in quite a few keyword and over the last 12-18 months we've basically fallen 8-10 pages back on all of them. Unless the combos now have forum, messageboard, etc. included, we went MIA. Combined with Adsense now paying essentially pennies for my niche and AI search now exploding, I just don't see the value of giving them data for free.