Comment by poorlyknit
3 years ago
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?"
3 years ago
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.