I'd be curious to hear from someone that feels strongly about blocking first-party front end tracking. I generally assume that whatever website I am on would have a good sense of what I am up to just based on server side logs. Sure, if I block 1p logging they might not have a down to the second understanding of how long I am impressing on something, but overall I feel the point is moot.
Probably the norm going forward to thwart ad-blockers. Also ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future. I'm surprised this hasn't happened already TBH. I guess the ad-networks like their JS on user's pages enough to slow the progress?
I guess I'm surprised anyone is surprised by this.<p>Using a third party for analytics is only a convenience. Given enough effort, any system can build in their own analytics.
It's probably just a proxy to something like Segment.
I use teddit and have generally refused to use reddit ever since they made the mobile experience unusable with the constant "Please download our shitty app" screens.<p><a href="https://teddit.net/" rel="nofollow">https://teddit.net/</a>
They were doing this for a while now. eg. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181220022532/https://www.reddit.com/r/stopadvertising/comments/87d1sq/psa_reddit_has_enhanced_their_tracking_they_now/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20181220022532/https://www.reddi...</a> from a few years ago