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by Thorrez 1295 days ago
The technique could be used for a lot of tracking.

However, it sounds like they're using it just for quite minimal tracking. It sounds like the only thing they're tracking is how many people viewed the site how many times. They'll know that on a particular day, 1 person viewed the site 500 times, but won't know anything identifying about that person (e.g. IP, name, gender, any sort of unique ID).