Comment by reaperman
3 years ago
> Built-in, on-by-default tracking protection disables some of the impact of exactly the sorts of trackers that report this sort of market share data.
Am I mistaken in thinking all that's needed is the User-Agent request header? I don't think FF generally fakes this.
You are underestimating the laziness of the Adtech industry.
"But we've already got Google Analytics, why would we implement server-side code (<- so complicated!) just to log some stupid header?"
Yeah, Google Analytics pioneered "JS and tracking cookies is all anyone needs for analytics" in ancient times and most other analytics companies followed that leader. It's the rare HN post indeed to see someone actually using classic web server logs in 2023 for analytics instead of JS+cookie trackers.