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Nope, widespread. Try looking at the YouTube frontpage when in a foreign WiFi...

While tracking is uncommon, using it for language / geolocation is not.

thats not ad-tracking, that is geolocation tracking for language settings, etc.

I would guess that as third party cookie blocking becomes more popular, the more aggressive sites will fall back to IP tracking more often.

My Duolingo ads disagree.