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by devdazed 5065 days ago
The point of my article was not on how the dev was detecting JS. So I didn't want to go into detail on it. Even if he did that (which he never claims he does) He would only see that people are coming in with JS turned off, not that they came from facebook.
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He does make the claim that 80% the clicks they were paying for had JS disabled. That would imply the referrers were set on those requests to be from Facebook and the IPs hitting the pages weren't registering in his JS based analytics package. We know he's logging the hits to a file, so presumably that data is there.

You claimed 'There were a few false assumptions made in the post. The first is that the traffic coming in had JavaScript disabled.' Care to elaborate on how it's a false assumption if the implied statement above is true?

I'll give you that he may be wrong, but I really don't see where there's concrete evidence to support your claim he's making false assumptions!