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Re:Show HN: Measure downloads and commercial adoption of any... by milkytron on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:41AM (#28489476)
Why not check the Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control header? Having a query param seems like more friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

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Re:Show HN: Measure downloads and commercial adoption of any... by aviaviavi on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:42AM (#28489677)
Great suggestion, very appreciated. Global privacy control wasn't on my radar but this looks like what we should do. DNT is considered deprecated, at least according to MDN docs.
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