Why the UnNecessary Access to the Google Account ?

  • Ashish Dung Dung

    (@ashishdungdung)


    7 years ago

    I just wanted to add the tracking code. This is a real monster that forces me to log in to GA and pretty much give it ALL access to ALL sites I manage, access to accounts and other critical settings and permissions.

    Obviously Unacceptable. It was great using this plugin, maybe its time to move on to some more simpler and useful.

    Some Questions! Why Explicit access? Even in free version.
    Why does it require to access goo.gl short URL ?
    Manage analytics account users by email address?
    Edit Google Analytics Management Entities
    Create a New Google Analytics account?
    View my adsense data? As the data is not available for free.
    Manage AdWords campaigns.

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  • Plugin Author chriscct7

    (@chriscct7)

    Hi there,
    I wish you had reached out to us prior to posting the review, so you could have pointed you to our documentation.

    You don’t need to grant any access to use MonsterInsights. Like always, you can just manually enter the UA code into the panel. The permissions asked for are for the reporting features as well as other features used in MonsterInsights that won’t work otherwise. We have a full breakdown on our site: https://www.monsterinsights.com/docs/google-permissions-for-oauth/

    -Chris

    Thread Starter Ashish Dung Dung

    (@ashishdungdung)

    I understand but many of the permission are not required in the free version. I get that we can use manual tagging.

    However, to see some reports in dashboards we are forced to give permission that are explicitly not require or will be used in the Free version Like:
    Google AdSense and Adwords
    Tag Manager[Tool Builder
    Google Analytics (Edit, Manage)
    Google URL Shortener

    It seems that by updating from 7.0 to 7.0.1 I migrated to something not much useful that was much better before.

    Plugin Author chriscct7

    (@chriscct7)

    Three of the 4 permissions you lost as not explicitly required for Lite, are in fact. The permissions for url builder and analytics were always required, even before 7. We’re in the process of adding the url builder as well as gtm support to our plugins, a feature already available to select Pro users, to our lite version. Any plugin that offers a dashboard for Google Analytics is going to be required to ask for the Analytics permissions, otherwise you can’t get report data to use.

    Google manages our installs all as a single Google console application and some of these features are also migrating to Lite as we create even more advanced Pro features.

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