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uBlock might stop you. It's certainly consistent with their philosophy to block all analytics, even homegrown and not shared across sites.
by eli 12y ago
uBlock might stop you. It's certainly consistent with their philosophy to block all analytics, even homegrown and not shared across sites.
- nfoz 12y agoI think the parent comment is referring to the idea that the web server, by necessity, is aware of a client connection. Webserver logs reveal a lot of information.
- eli 12y agoThat might be useful for fingerprinting visitors but, perhaps ironically, it's much worse than javascript & cookies for actually seeing big picture trends on your site. There are many, many bots that request files off your server but only a relative handful execute javascript.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 12y agoHow many of the bots that don't execute JavaScript bother to download the URLs referenced in <script> tags? You can filter all the others easily.