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by cameronbrown 2502 days ago
Wouldn't distributed scrapers be blocking Google Analytics scripts by default? Or are you sending data there server-side?
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That is a fair point. It used to be that way, but around 2016 we started noticing bots and scrapers that use that use full webkit implementations to run JavaScript. Those clients should be triggering Google Analytics just like a desktop browser, but it was difficult to make the correlation due to information hiding in the GA dashboard (tuple of IP address, timestamp, resource would be needed, but they do not provide that, so it was impossible to test).