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If I read your page on my desktop, JavaScript was off - unless I had forgotten to revoke temporary permissions after whitelidting Google analytics on another page.

Which illustrates that Google analytics reports something, but what it reports is what it reports. To put it another way, Google Analytics records information useful to Google. What it reports back to the datapoint is designed to appear useful to the datapoint. The purpose of the information provided is solely to encourage the datapoint to keep using Google Analytics so that Google can keep using the datapoint's website to track people on the internet.




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