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How do you deal with analytics data lost because of ad blockers?

According to statista.com, 26% of internet users use adblocker. I assume that number is just growing. Adblockers usually block analytical websites like Google Analytics too.

How is this affecting you? Do you miss that 26% of analytics from your users or do you have enough users that you simply don't care about not having analytics on 26% of them?

Indie hackers making money serving ads, I assume this affects you more?

on November 24, 2020
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    Server-side actions are the source of truth for what's actually happening. If you're running your own servers, you can install stat counters in each of your routes to see where people are going and what they are doing. For CDN-served sites, you can use things like Netlify Analytics.

    Then, of course, you unlock the next problem: bots