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Re:The Website Obesity Crisis by toast0 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:52PM (#10820928)
You can track without JavaScript, but you can't just include a 3rd party service, you actually have to do the work.

Same thing for ads, JavaScript isn't required (especially for text ads, although few networks will let you do server side ad requests)

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Re:The Website Obesity Crisis by cbsmith on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:02PM (#10821060)
No, you can still do a 3rd pay service without JavaScript. GA expressly supports it.
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Re:The Website Obesity Crisis by userbinator on Friday January 01, 2016 @05:15AM (#10821535)
Tracking can absolutely be done without JS, although the granularity of the data is bigger; these have been around ever since the very beginning of the Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon
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