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It's certainly possible to do tracking without the ability to execute code on the client, and for example Google is probably able to log 99% of your browsing history with this method alone even today.

But it should still very much lower the amount of tracking, as it requires a lot more effort than adding something like Google Analytics to your page. And there's got to be a huge number of pages out there, which don't actually have a real use for analytics. They just included analytics, because it required no more than five clicks to do so and made some pretty graphs appear.




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