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Arne,
I agree, you don't need to be a conspiracy enthusiast or tin foil hat wearing website owner to see it's grossly invasive of privacy and quite unjustifiable in the days of GDPR. We can't restrict it to commerce or checkout related pages only and Stripe bless 'em, surely can't detect card fraud by 100's if not 1000's of updates about individuals reading topics about say favourite pizza toppings, looking after tropical fish etc.
When you factor in more or highly sensitive content, perhaps medical conditions or preferences, thats really not good, off the scale not good!
Site visitors can't opt out of it, certainly before it starts tracking them, as far as I can see, which isn't right.
There have been numerous topics here about it in the past. Its only a recommendation but certainly not a requirement, so I wish IPS (as established corporate advocates of anonymous posting and pride etc) would step up and take some ownership on improving this, and provide us with AdminCP options either for sidewide, commerce or checkout Stripe integration only.

It's why you guys are the best. You help make us better.

I attempted to upgrade again just now. Ran the query. Waited an hour and nothing went wrong. Then upgraded from 4.6.6 straight to 4.6.8 and it seems to have gone right this time. Website hasn't taken it's own life so far.

I will let you know if it does happen again this time though. As it's happened two times before.

Thanks for all the replies 🙂

Ended up being php-xml somehow having uninstalled itself after an upgrade.