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by JD557 3925 days ago
A note about the IP addresses: Some ad networks/analytics software does not store your IP address, but an anonymized version of it (eg. drop the last octet[1] or an store only an hash). I believe that they must do this in order to operate legally in certain countries.

They can still store the geoIP information without storing the IP, though.

[1]: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en