Yes and that will screw up the advertiser's stats, but in terms of tracking you actually give more third parties access to your data. All they need to track yo

Yes and that will screw up the advertiser's stats, but in terms of tracking you actually give more third parties access to your data. All they need to track you is either access to your device (by serving you code, or saving data in it, like cookies), or ip address + http headers and timestamp (which they would definitely get if the HTTP request goes through by clicking on the ad).