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Sorry, this is indeed what I meant to say. Will update the text!

Do you store it as the same record type as the cookie-based metric? If I decided to stop using cookies that would make aggregates of the data very misleading.

We do - I’ll see if we can add in a warning message if changing that setting while a lot of data has already been tracked. Or perhaps mark it in the graph, so the difference comes with an explanation. What would you do?

I'm not sure. It seems like they are totally different metrics and visitors who came from another page on your site might be an interesting metric to cookie users.

What if you completely separated them, and tracked and displayed both for cookie users? Users who disable cookies would then have historical data in the same unit.

Or a warning would probably work fine.

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