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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?