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Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by cddotdotslash on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @09:48AM (#10663201)
Do you have a contingency plan if your script/domains start getting blocked by the very AdBlockers they're trying to track? For example, Google Analytics is already blocked by a number of plugins (Ghostery, uBlock, Disconnect, etc.)
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by amorgan on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:08AM (#10663340)
I hope that doesn't happen because Adblock Analytics is 100% cookieless and doesn't track visitors via any method, we're only interested if ads were displayed or not, but we do have some ideas if it does happen.
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by rbinv on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:23AM (#10663443)
If cookieless, how do you accurately aggregate/assign pageviews per visitor?
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by yummyfajitas on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:56AM (#10663676)
Browser fingerprinting is one possible way.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[edit: clarified that this is a solution, I have no knowledge as to whether that is what is done.]

Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by rbinv on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:07AM (#10663750)
Do you actually know that fingerprinting is used or is just an assumption?
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by ryan-c on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:41AM (#10663970)
They seem to only be collecting screen resolution, viewport size and whether ads are showing client side (tested by trying to load a file called ads.js that inserts a div into the dom). I assume server-side they combine this with user agent string and ip address.
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by amorgan on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:36PM (#10664416)
Screen resolution & viewport size aren't being used. They were added many months ago when we first started development.
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by ryan-c on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:56PM (#10664980)
So you're just doing UA + IP? Seems like that would be plenty for your use case.
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by jimktrains2 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:16AM (#10663399)
I just hope more people start running with NoScript and then all this nonsense is meaningless anyway:)
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by ryan-c on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:44AM (#10664000)
I'm actually just running a script blocker in default deny now - running an adblocker as well doesn't seem to be necessary.
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by nambante on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:03AM (#10674755)
you hope?
Re:Show HN: Adblock Analytics by zuck9 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:06AM (#10663328)
This is one of the reasons why you can't get perfect stats if you use GA events to track it, which many articles on the internet suggest.

The only way is to have the complete tracking implementation on your server.