Duh, stupid me! It says right in the article that NoScript blocks this. IMO, NoScript is as necessary as Adblock Plus. Yes, it requires effort to use properly, but in the process, you learn a whole lot about what’s going on in your browser.
Google Analytics isn’t harmless any more than Google itself is. There are open source analytics programs like Piwik that can gather data without feeding information to Big Data and the NSA.
That’s my one gripe with how FR is run, technologically speaking. Well, maybe that and not accepting Bitcoin donations.
NoScript is a winner.
Suggest to John Robinson that he switch from GA to Piwik.
Are you familiar enough with any to make a recommendation? If there's a good Wordpress plugin that will replace GA I wouldn't mind trying it out.