<story><title>Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers</title><url>https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_content=bufferd7420&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>Good! We need to ditch all the analytics software that rely on clients to make pointless HTTP requests. They are offloading their work on to the website visitors, wasting every user&amp;#x27;s bandwidth and slowing down internet connections worldwide.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know who is visiting your site, try reading your server logs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrr</author><text>Server logs are missing important information like screen resolution, navigator.language etc. Server logs also can&amp;#x27;t report on element events.   Nor does it work with things like single page apps. How can developers make their apps better without having the proper analytics to do so?</text></comment>
<story><title>Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers</title><url>https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?utm_content=bufferd7420&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>Good! We need to ditch all the analytics software that rely on clients to make pointless HTTP requests. They are offloading their work on to the website visitors, wasting every user&amp;#x27;s bandwidth and slowing down internet connections worldwide.&lt;p&gt;If you want to know who is visiting your site, try reading your server logs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mahyarm</author><text>Why don&amp;#x27;t they proxy host client-side analytics on their side, and don&amp;#x27;t put the word analytics in the endpoint names?&lt;p&gt;Most ads would be unblockable if you made the ads come from your domain and have them indistinguishable from your normal content in the URIs as far as I know.</text></comment>