Am I becoming cynical in my increasing age (I would say old age, but my shallow ego wouldn't be able to take it) but is the world becoming lazier?
Rather than sitting down and learning, people go out and ask other people to take time out from what they are doing and write something for them? Or even to take the plugin they have (that works) find the line that puts the old google javascript in and change it to the new one.
Hell, it could even be accomplished with a good text editor (capable searching through sub-directories) and a global search and replace of <?php wp_footer(); ?> with
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-12345-1");
pageTracker._setDomainName("none");
pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
But then, if they are too lazy to actually use real words, then.....
Sorry one of those days, but "chav-spk" really gets on my nerves. You have a language ****ing use it.