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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by moot on Monday December 02, 2013 @03:33PM (#6836300)
Well it's a single kilobyte, but 100 KB in aggregate.

It's almost entirely Google Analytics, unfortunately. Our ads are served from a different domain (4chan-ads.org) for specifically this reason (user privacy and cookie bloat).

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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by bdt101 on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:36PM (#6836706)
The newest version of Google Analytics eliminates most of the cookie bloat. There's now just a single id cookie that's around 30 bytes or so.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by moot on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:33PM (#6837076)
Wasn't aware of this (but was hoping it was in the works) -- thanks a bunch!
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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by Jhsto on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:29PM (#6836666)
Have you ever thought of running server-side analytics?
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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by moot on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:24PM (#6837015)
Yes, but every time I've investigated it, the tl;dr was "not worth it" given our requirements/constraints.

Google Analytics has its shortcomings, but it's a great product and free.

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Re:Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless do... by sdoering on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @03:11AM (#6839211)
So you never encountered any problems with the free usage tier and its limitations? Asking out of curiosity, as we use it as well and break the hit-limits every month. My direct supervisor asked me, if I envisioned problems, and I told him, Google does not guarantee, but delivers non the less (as far as I knew at that time).

How do you feel about the believability of the data?

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