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I 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 informat
by nfoz 12y ago
I 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.