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I wonder why we are not seeing more completely server-side analytics. With tricks like this you can get by with no or only minimal JavaScript. You can also set

I wonder why we are not seeing more completely server-side analytics. With tricks like this you can get by with no or only minimal JavaScript. You can also set a session cookie to be more accurate. If the cookie is neccessary for the functioning of the site, you don't even need GDPR consent. Practially, and I know this is cynical, but you don't really have to follow the GDPR, you just have to make sure there is no outside sign you are tracking users. And frankly, if I had a website, I would want accurate statistics, but I would want to avoid a cookie prompt, and I would want as little external javascript as possible. So it is weird that there is no black-hat stealth visitor analytics yet.

notriddle 5y ago
> Practially, and I know this is cynical, but you don't really have to follow the GDPR, you just have to make sure there is no outside sign you are tracking users. Why bother, then? I mean this in the relatively broad philosophical sense. There are few who seek pain, simply because it is pain, and there are few who implement complex tracking schemes simply to implement complex tracking schemes. They only go through this much work if there is some pleasure or profit to be gained from it. If you start doing significantly-meaningful ad targeting, someone might notice the striking correlation. If you're a big enough organization for the practice to become dangerous, then even if nobody on the outside notices, someone might leak. What's the point in gathering the information if you can't use it for fear of someone figuring out what you did?