Last-click attribution, deterministic measurement, and Wittgenstein’s ruler

When a marketing team tells me that it can measure advertising contribution deterministically at the level of an individual user on iOS -- often, they claim, because that team has "found a workaround to ATT" or "built a system that can achieve deterministic attribution" -- my first instinct is to question (or outright dismiss) their reporting and measurement tools.

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