Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:00PM
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Unless you're spoofing your User-Agent string, servers still know what browser you're using. You don't need to be running client-side analytics scripts for browser market measurements.
Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
by kybernetikos on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:09PM
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Sure, but that's not how statcounter or most advanced analytics packages work.
Your browser doesn't make a request to the analytics server if you're blocking it, so while the content server might know the user agent, the analytics server generally doesn't.
Even if you are a firefox user who doesn't use third party plugins, firefox itself will block statcounter if you have enhanced tracking protection turned on. I couldn't find a similar setting in Chrome.