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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.