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by Tenoke 1806 days ago
I'm surprised that this isn't obvious to the tweet author (and everyone else). GA uses JS, Cloudflare is at the DNS level.

As for relevancy - GA can still be useful as it can give you more detailed information which you can't get without JS.

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> GA can still be useful as it can give you more detailed information which you can't get without JS.

Detailed information about users who allow the site to execute JS, that is.

I'm not sure how useful such skewed information is.

Depends on the usecase. For example, if you profit via ads then the people you see on GA are the main ones you care about anyway.
> Detailed information about users who allow the site to execute JS, that is.

I think you are massively overestimating the number of people outside the HN crowd that have NoScript or an equivalent turned on.

For most people that is the user base that makes them the most money, so I think it would be skewed in the right direction