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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by praxulus on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:19PM (#10473979)
You can't read their Google Analytics cookies in your server logs though.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by oldmanjay on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:28PM (#10474828)
For clarity, as some replies seem to have missed the point: because conforming clients will not send the cookie in the origin server request due to domain name differences.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by joosters on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:09PM (#10474305)
Most web servers can log cookie data or even arbitrary HTTP headers, you just have to modify the log format.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by amelius on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:00PM (#10475032)
The point is that third-party cookies will never reach your server (in this case Google Analytics' cookies), because the request they are piggy-backed on is going to Google, not to your server.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by HappyTypist on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:06PM (#10474284)
Unless you patch your web server of your choice.
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