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Old 05-06-2013, 10:08 AM   #10
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Well in principle if something is being tracked, that means that information is being gathered and stored somewhere, and performing those operations will take up resources (execute some extra code, store the information somewhere, etc).

Depending on the kind of tracking that code and storage may happen on Google's server or on the local machine, so how much benefit to the user there is will probably depend on the details of what it is.

Google does enough stuff it's possible that there'd be some things done in the browser in JS that sends info to the server that on a really old slow computer turning it off might have a bit of an impact. In theory anyway.
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