Remote tracking ping

[davidfischer]

At least one advertiser wants their own reporting mechanism (they use Google Campaign Manager) to track their ad performance (clicks/views). Normally this is done by using Google's ad tracking pixel which goes against the ethos of this server as it would allow cookie-ing users and tracking them. However, it might be possible to ping an ad reporting server whenever an ad view or click occurred from this server.

[ericholscher]

I imagine that will make GCM very unhappy given that it's all from the same IP address, but might be worth it if it's just a data thing, and not a validation step.

[davidfischer]

Ya, I have no idea how to verify that it will "count". However, I think this is more for data than for validation.