my cookieless analytics gets blocked by ad blockers. that's the honest version.
ad blockers block my tracker. not the creepy one. mine. the one that stores no cookies and no ips. i'm om yaduvanshi, 18, an applied ai developer. i build cloudline, a cookieless analytics tool. day 29 of 90, building in public. it launches tomorrow. the page that lists my enemies every tracker needs a troubleshooting page. mine lists four ways it can fail: your content security policy can refuse…
Ad blockers are preventing the author's tracker from functioning properly. The 18-year-old applied AI developer, who goes by Om Yaduvanshi, has created a cookieless analytics tool called Cloudline. The page listing the potential failures of the tracker has already been launched. These failures include a content security policy refusing the script, an ad blocker consuming the request, localhost events being rejected in production, and the domain not matching.
The developer has openly acknowledged each of these potential issues rather than trying to conceal them. When a visitor with an ad blocker shows up, they appear as a visitor who never loaded the script, resulting in the developer not knowing if they actually visited the site. The author believes that the price for this transparency is the inability to hide the failures of their tracker.
They refuse to use any tricks to outsmart ad blockers and keep the script simple. If the blocker takes down the script, then it is taken down. The dashboard is designed to be honest about what it cannot collect, showing an error message instead of making up numbers. The developer is confident that visitors will not punish them for the missing parts, but they will punish those who hide them.
Cloudline is currently free during its early access stage and can be accessed at https://trycloudline.space.
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