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> Today in my experience 99% of trackers only measure users with JS. So not true. Ever hear of tracking pixels? ETag manipulation? User-Agent tracking? > Mayb
by sublinear 4y ago
> Today in my experience 99% of trackers only measure users with JS.
So not true. Ever hear of tracking pixels? ETag manipulation? User-Agent tracking?
> Maybe you are just not qualified to argue this. Videos work just as images, text or audio.
... ever hear of tracking pixels?
These have not been theoretical for a very long time and nowhere close to an exhaustive list. GET requests are usually loaded with parameters as well.
- rlpb 4y agoNobody is claiming that such methods do not exist, so naming them adds nothing to this thread.
- sublinear 4y agoI guess I thought I was more clear in my previous comment when I said these are not theoretical. Non-JS tracking methods are not just common and not just fallbacks. They are the standard for marketing and anti-abuse mitigations. I'll list a couple more details that make it more familiar. Search engines have been distributing shortened URLs and parameterized links pretty much since the beginning. Both are tokenization schemes that don't require JS and if used correctly are impossible for the user to "block".