[sdoering]

Actually there is oftentimes a static "non js" tracking-image embedded within a <no script>-tag.

Oftentimes this totally gets forgotten btw. And it is not only GA - it is Adobe Analytics, Heap, every conversion-tracker by Facebook and Adsense and the likes.

SO yeah - we (so called) web analysts know that and even have ideas/means to track the number of people that disable js by default or that block every form of (browser based) tracking.

tl;dr You get locked (most of the time), but you can block this (most of the time) as well.

[donatj]

A company I worked for years ago actually had an analytics tool they sold that just used a transparent tracking gif. We managed to sell pretty expensive subscriptions way after Google analytics completely pwned its capabilities thanks to industrial companies being strangely un-web-savvy.

[thrownaway122]

How would one block this?

[danneu]

It's typically an image hosted on a 3rd party domain that's on every anti-tracking plugin's filter list. (uBlock, Ghostery, Disconnect, ...)

[thrownaway122]

Thanks. I guess anyone that does not enable javascript is running a anti-tracking plugin anyway...