Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by lucasmullens on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:23PM
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Firefox definitely sends its user-agent to servers, so wouldn't server-side analytics still work?
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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by DreadY2K on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:48PM
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Theoretically, server-side analytics could use the user-agent strings and other headers in the request to have infallible analytics. In practice, a lot of server-side analytics in practice rely on third-party tracking scripts (like Google Analytics) and other such practices that get blocked by tools like Privacy Badger, etc.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by staplers on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:43PM
(#23459418)
Perhaps, and this is likely the case with most users. But there still exists many users with extensions disabling fingerprinting and such.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by aembleton on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:11PM
(#23467873)
I wish Cloudflare would publish stats based on user agents. They must have a good idea about the real numbers